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Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and numerical aerodynamic investigations of automotive disc brake rotor

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Braking system is one of the important control systems of an automotive. For many years, the disc brakes have been used in automobiles for the safe retarding of the vehicles. During the braking enormous amount of heat will be generated and for effective braking sufficient heat dissipation is essential. The thermal performance of disc brake depends upon the characteristics of the airflow around the brake rotor and hence the aerodynamics is an important in the region of brake components. A CFD analysis is carried out on the braking system as a case study to make out the behaviour of airflow distribution around the disc brake components using ANSYS CFX software. We are interested in the determination of the heat transfer coefficient on each surface of a ventilated disc rotor varying with time in a transient state using CFD analysis, and then imported the surface film condition data into a corresponding FEM model for disc temperature analysis.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sciences and the Technology of Oran, USTO, L.P 1505 El -MNAOUER, 31000, Oran, Algeria

    Ali Belhocine

  2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, UTM, 81310, Skudai, Malaysia

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Belhocine, A., Wan Omar, W.Z. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and numerical aerodynamic investigations of automotive disc brake rotor. Int J Interact Des Manuf 12, 421–437 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-017-0394-z

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