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COBEM 2021
26th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
NUMERICAL SIMULATION APPLIED TO THE AERODYNAMIC STUDY OF A FORMULA SAE VEHICLE
Submission Author:
Carlos Sousa , RJ , Brazil
Co-Authors:
Carlos Sousa, Farney Moreira
Presenter: Carlos Sousa
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2021.COB2021-0851
Abstract
Computer simulation has, over the past decades, continuously contributed to companies to develop their products and production processes. The present work aims to make an aerodynamic study of a Formula SAE vehicle using the Ansys Fluent extension, where the Navier Stokes equations are solved by the Finite Volume Method, starting from the boundary conditions coherent to the event to be simulated. The simulation analysis methodology adopted was through comparison between the model used to simulate vehicle body proposal and a validated model to analyze another vehicle with similar aerodynamic characteristics, using the drag coefficient as a parameter. The results obtained prove the reliability of the numerical tool in correctly capturing the aerodynamic coefficients of the vehicle.
Keywords
modern engineering, CAE, Numerical simulation, Aerodynamics
