This research focuses on the analysis of the instability of passenger vehicles associated with transient crosswind gusts. A new vehicle model, created to analyze the behavior of unsteady wakes on bluff bodies, is proposed. The tests presented here were performed on a squareback model animated by an oscillating yaw angle in a steady wind. The initial unsteady results were obtained for a yaw angle of 10°, a Reynolds number close to 106, and a maximum value of the Strouhal number of 0.07. The analysis of unsteady total-pressure tomographies and unsteady particle-image velocimetry (PIV) shows the presence of phase shifting and hysteresis that evolve as a function of the Strouhal number. This work was performed in the framework of a collaboration between the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, (CNAM), the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (SUPAERO) and the European automotive constructor Peugeot Citroën SA.
Experimental Study of Unsteady Wakes Behind an Oscillating Car Model
Sae Technical Papers
SAE 2005 World Congress & Exhibition ; 2005
2005-04-11
Conference paper
English
Experimental study of unsteady wakes behind an oscillating car model
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