Research on Drag Reduction Matching of Modular Flying Cars Based on Nested Configuration Tongji University, National Engineering Research Center of N.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Li, Yanlong, author.

Contributor:

Ye, Shengfei

Zhou, Hua

Conference Name:

SAE 2024 Intelligent Urban Air Mobility Symposium (2024-09-06 : Hangzhou, China)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2024

Summary:

This paper investigates the drag reduction matching of modular flying cars based on a nested configuration. To address the high aerodynamic drag issue of traditional modular flying car configurations, a nested design scheme is proposed. In this scheme, the cabin is extracted from a low-drag car and combined with the flying module using a nested approach, achieving aerodynamic matching between the cabin, driving module, and flying module. First, the conceptual design of the new modular flying car and the parameters of each module, including the driving module, cabin module, and flying module, are introduced. Then, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods are utilized to numerically simulate the aerodynamic characteristics of the new flying car, and the results are compared with the existing typical modular flying car, AIRBUS. The research results show that the nested modular flying car exhibits superior aerodynamic performance in both driving and flying modes. Compared to the typical modular flying car AIRBUS, the nested modular flying car reduces the drag coefficient by 47.09% in driving mode and 43.26% in flying mode

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Publisher Number:

2024-01-7016

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