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Analysis of Vehicle Wind Throb Using CFD and Flow Visualization
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Passenger cars with sunroofs sometimes experience a low frequency pulsation noise called “wind throb” when traveling with the roof open. This “wind throb” should be suppressed because it is an unpleasant noise which can adversely affect the acoustic environment inside a car.
In this paper, 3-dimensional numerical flow analysis is applied around a car body to investigate the wind throb phenomenon. The computational scheme and the modeling method of the car body is first described. A flow visualization test in a water tunnel was completed for the simple car body shape to compare against the numerical procedure. The numerical and the visualized results compared well and the numerical simulation method employed was considered to be a reliable tool to analyze the wind throb phenomenon. Calculated results of pressure and vorticity distribution in the sunroof opening were analyzed with the spectrum of pressure fluctuation at the sunroof opening with and without a deflector. It was found that the effect of the wind deflector was to reduce the vorticity concentration around the sunroof opening.
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Ukita, T., China, H., and Kanie, K., "Analysis of Vehicle Wind Throb Using CFD and Flow Visualization," SAE Technical Paper 970407, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/970407.Also In
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