Experimental Study of Unsteady Wakes Behind an Oscillating Car Model Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France

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Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Chometon, F., author.

Conference Name:

SAE 2005 World Congress & Exhibition (2005-04-11 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2005

Summary:

This research focuses on the analysis of the instability of passenger vehicles associated with transient crosswind gusts. A new vehicle model, created to analyze the behavior of unsteady wakes on bluff bodies, is proposed. The tests presented here were performed on a squareback model animated by an oscillating yaw angle in a steady wind. The initial unsteady results were obtained for a yaw angle of 10°, a Reynolds number close to 106, and a maximum value of the Strouhal number of 0.07. The analysis of unsteady total-pressure tomographies and unsteady particle-image velocimetry (PIV) shows the presence of phase shifting and hysteresis that evolve as a function of the Strouhal number. This work was performed in the framework of a collaboration between the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, (CNAM), the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (SUPAERO) and the European automotive constructor Peugeot Citroën SA

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2005-01-0604

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