The Influence of Ground Condition on the Flow Around a Wheel Located Within a Wheelhouse Cavity

1999-01-0806

03/01/1999

Event
International Congress & Exposition
Authors Abstract
Content
A 3D Navier-Stokes CFD model of a wheel located within a wheelhouse cavity has been produced. Both a stationary wheel on a fixed ground and a rotating wheel on a moving ground were considered. Extensive comparisons with the results of a wind tunnel investigation based on the same geometry are presented. These consist of three force coefficients and pressures on the internal faces of the cavity. Comparison with the experimental results gave encouraging agreement. It was found that the rotating wheel produced more drag than the stationary wheel whilst shroud drag decreased when the groundplane was moving compared to when it was stationary.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-0806
Pages
12
Citation
Axon, L., Garry, K., and Howell, J., "The Influence of Ground Condition on the Flow Around a Wheel Located Within a Wheelhouse Cavity," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-0806, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-0806.
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Published
Mar 1, 1999
Product Code
1999-01-0806
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English