This dissertation is submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and Computing as the partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of MSc in Automotive Engineering. It is based on a steady state formulation with the focus to assess the capabilities of a CFD tool for aerodynamic development of a coach. It was found that prediction of the drag coefficient obtained from the CFD is very close to the corresponding measured in experiment. Besides, the surface pressure distributions are reasonably well compared to the experiment. This suggests that the steady state
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Aerodynamic Study of a Coach Using Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Technique
This dissertation is submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and Computing as the partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of MSc in Automotive Engineering. It is based on a steady state formulation with the focus to assess the capabilities of a CFD tool for aerodynamic development of a coach. It was found that prediction of the drag coefficient obtained from the CFD is very close to the corresponding measured in experiment. Besides, the surface pressure distributions are reasonably well compared to the experiment. This suggests that the steady state
This dissertation is submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and Computing as the partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of MSc in Automotive Engineering. It is based on a steady state formulation with the focus to assess the capabilities of a CFD tool for aerodynamic development of a coach. It was found that prediction of the drag coefficient obtained from the CFD is very close to the corresponding measured in experiment. Besides, the surface pressure distributions are reasonably well compared to the experiment. This suggests that the steady state