Technical Paper
Investigation of Turbulent Wind Characteristics on Vehicles by Large Eddy Simulation
2022-06-07
2022-01-5047
Automotive aerodynamic development requires not only to reduce aerodynamic drag but also to develop vehicles that perform well under real road conditions. Although a few types of research have studied the wind characteristics vehicles experienced on-road, the mechanisms of turbulent effects on vehicle aerodynamics are still not well understood. For this reason, an alternative computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method is adopted in this study to reproduce the turbulent wind characteristics, with the aim of providing a more accurate and reliable simulation method to help further understand the wind environment in the atmospheric boundary layer. To fully trust this numerical method, both scale and full-scale simulations are conducted and verified with the corresponding data measured in wind tunnel experiments and on-road measurements.