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Simulation of vehicle aerodynamics using a vortex element method

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The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles: Trucks, Buses, and Trains

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics ((LNACM,volume 19))

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Recent developments of the 3-D Lagrangian vortex element method for bluff body flows are presented. In this approach attached boundary layer regions are modelled using infinitely thin vortex sheets while Lagrangian vortex elements are used for the separation regions and the wake. Preliminary results for the flow past a simplified generic truck geometry are presented. Further developments, aimed at the development of a hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian solver, are briefly introduced.

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  1. Mechanical Engineering Dept., Université catholique de Louvain, Place du Levant 2, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348, Belgium

    Goéric Daeninck & Grégoire Winckelmans

  2. Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA

    Philippe Chatelain, Michael Rubel & Anthony Leonard

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  1. Goéric Daeninck
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  1. Center for Advanced Fluid Dynamics Applications, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-098, 94551, Livermore, CA, USA

    Rose McCallen Ph.D.

  2. Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Univerity of Southern California, 90089-1453, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Fred Browand Ph.D.

  3. Research Center MS 260-1, Experimental Aerophysics Branch, NASA-Ames, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    James Ross Ph.D.

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Daeninck, G., Chatelain, P., Rubel, M., Winckelmans, G., Leonard, A. (2004). Simulation of vehicle aerodynamics using a vortex element method. In: McCallen, R., Browand, F., Ross, J. (eds) The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles: Trucks, Buses, and Trains. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44419-0_31

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