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COBEM 2019
25th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Side Force Coefficient Evaluation of a Commercial Bus with Vortex Generators
Submission Author:
Daniel Garcia-Ribeiro , SP
Co-Authors:
Daniel Garcia-Ribeiro, Juan Flores Mezarina, Pedro David Bravo-Mosquera, Hernán Cerón-Muñoz, John Jairo Vaca-Rios
Presenter: Daniel Garcia-Ribeiro
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2019.COB2019-1346
Abstract
Vehicle aerodynamic is field of study that more attention has been addressed to in order to reduce fuel consumption and, then, turn the desired vehicle more economically advantageous. The majority of the available work focus on drag reduction of tractor-trailers, trucks or cars, however less effort has been done to evaluate the effects on stability and other kind of vehicles as buses. Therefore, this works experimentally tested a commercial bus model with two different configurations using vortex generators. The results show that the side force coefficients are increased when the devices, in their respective placements, are utilized, which could jeopardize the stability of the studied bus.
Keywords
Vehicle aerodynamic, Side force coefficient, vortex generator, Bus
