On the simulation of a heavy vehicle wake in OpenFOAM with real-world data

Two computational approaches are taken to characterize the drag of a car driven behind a heavy vehicle under real conditions. The on-road approach uses velocity measurements, obtained from an array of static five-hole probes, to construct on-flow boundary conditions replicating the atmospheric dynam...

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Veröffentlicht in:STAB/DGLR Symposium (22. : 2020 : Berlin) New results in numerical and experimental fluid mechanics XIII
1. Verfasser: Weinman, Keith A. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wilhelmi, Henning (VerfasserIn), Bell, James R. (VerfasserIn), Heine, Daniela (VerfasserIn), Wagner, Claus (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: 2021
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Zusammenfassung:Two computational approaches are taken to characterize the drag of a car driven behind a heavy vehicle under real conditions. The on-road approach uses velocity measurements, obtained from an array of static five-hole probes, to construct on-flow boundary conditions replicating the atmospheric dynamics encountered during an on-road measurement. The wind tunnel approach uses an oscillating flap system to control flow time and length scales upstream of a wind tunnel model. The amplitude and frequency of the flap motion is calibrated to reproduce length and time scales at on-road conditions under respective Reynolds and Strouhal number scaling. These approaches are evaluated against experimental measurements using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and demonstrates that they reproduce the aerodynamic drag and a significant part of the measured onflow condition for the car.
ISBN:9783030795603