LES Investigation of Passive Flow Control Around an Ahmed Body
Paper in proceeding, 2013

Large eddy simulations are used to study passive flow con- trol for drag reduction in a simplified ground vehicle. Add on devices in the form of short cylinders are used for the forma- tion of streaks in the streamwise direction that lead to the sep- aration delay. The results of the present numerical simulations are compared with the experimental data and show good agree- ment. The two-stage flow control mechanism is analyzed from the LES results. It was found to be in agreement with the previ- ous experimental observations that the counter-rotating vortices behind the impinging devices influence the separation only indi- rectly through the longitudinal vortices further downstream.

Ahmed body

flow control

vehicle aerodynamics

LES

large-eddy simulation

Author

Sinisa Krajnovic

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics

Proceedings of the ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition IMECE 2013 November 15-21, 2013, San Diego, CA, USA

Vol. 7 A V07AT08A010-
978-0-7918-5631-4 (ISBN)

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Transport

Infrastructure

C3SE (Chalmers Centre for Computational Science and Engineering)

Subject Categories

Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics

DOI

10.1115/IMECE2013-62373

ISBN

978-0-7918-5631-4

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