An Experimental Study on the Flow Around a Simplified 2-Dimensional Vehicle-Like body

단순화된 2차원 자동차형 물체주위의 유동에 관한 실험적 연구

An experimental study has been performed to study the effect of the base slant angle of a 1/10 scale two-dimensional vehicle-like body on its wake flow including the recirculating region, where the simplified shape of the body has been originated from a profile of a domestic passenger car. In the case of a Reynolds number based on the length of the model R=7.96*10$^{5}$ , the surface pressure coefficient, the mean velocity and the turbulent stresses have been measured, while the flow visualization technique using wool tuft has been adopted as well. When the base slant angle of the model is 15.deg., the free stream flowing parallel to the slant is observed to be separated from the lower edge of the slant, thus forming the smallest recirculating region. When the base slant angles are 30.deg. and 45.deg., the free streams are separated from the upper edge of the slant and the sizes of the recirculating zones are observed to be almost the same as when the base slant angle is 0.deg. From these observations, it is conjectured that between the base slant angles of 15.deg. and 30.deg. there exists a critical angle at which the size of the recirculating region becomes minimum and as the slant angle becomes larger than this critical angle the separation line moves along the slant towards the rear edge of the roof. Through the flow visualization technique, the existence of the two counter-rotating bubbles in the recirculating region has been clearly observed and verified.

본 연구에서는 우선 승용차의 1/10 모형의 형상을 더욱 단순화시킨 2차원 자동차형 물체를 대상으로 하여 그 주위의 압력, 속도 및 난류량의 분포를 측정하고, 또한 울터프트(wool tuft)를 이용한 유동가시화법으로 후류구조를 파악함으로써 향후 계속될 실험적 및 수치해석적 연구의 기초를 마련하고자 한다.