Simulating the flow around a train passing through a tornado
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2020

A flow simulation was developed to understand the flow surrounding a train that was passing through a tornado and the resulting aerodynamic forces acting on the vehicle. Unsteady Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations were solved to reproduce a previously-conducted laboratory experiment, in which a model train runs through a stationary tornado-like swirling flow. The simulation reproduced the unsteady aerodynamic forces acting on the train reported in the experiment. Furthermore, the computation successfully revealed how the flow field changes as a train passes through a tornado-like swirling flow.

Flow simulation

Train

Aerodynamic force

Tornado

Författare

Kohei Obara

Meijo University

Sinisa Krajnovic

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Strömningslära

Guglielmo Minelli

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Strömningslära

Branislav Basara

AVL

Nobuyuki Okura

Meijo University

Masahiro Suzuki

Meijo University

JOURNAL OF ADVANCED SIMULATION IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

2188-5303 (ISSN)

Vol. 8 1 12-26

Ämneskategorier

Geofysisk teknik

Farkostteknik

Strömningsmekanik och akustik

DOI

10.15748/jasse.8.12

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