• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.4707-4712
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• 2014

Considerable fuel in cars is consumed by air resistance. The flow resistance against the air stream was analyzed by flow analysis near the passenger car body. In this study, the models were used were cars available on the real market. Two velocities entered into inlet plane of flow were 80 km/h and 110 km/h using the flow analysis of CFX. As the study method, the velocity of air flow near the car and the pressure on the rear part of car body were investigated at the driving of car. The shapes of the study models were models 1 and 2, and the flow streams were four cases of 1, 2, 3, and 4. In case 1 among the four cases, the maximum pressure ($1.017{\times}10^5Pa$) on the rear part was highest and the maximum velocity (43.81m/s) of air flow near car body was fastest. The air drag force in the case of high speed (110km/h) driving a passenger car was higher than that of a normal driving speed (80km/h). The drag force at wide section area of the car body becomes higher than the narrow section area. The shape of the car body can be effectively designed to reduce the air resistance using the study results of this analysis.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.1-11
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• 1999

This paper describes the flow field analysis of an automobile with crosswind effects of 15°, 30° 45° and 60° of yaw angles. The governing equations of the 3-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved by the iterative time marching scheme. The Chimera grid technique has been applied to efficiently simulate the flow around the side-view mirror. The computated surface pressure coefficients have been compared with experimental results and a good agreement has been achieved. The A- and C-pillar vortex and other flow phenomena around the ground vehicle are evidently shown. The variation of aerodynamic coefficients of drag, lift, side force and moments with respect to yaw angle is systematically studied.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.47-53
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• 1992

대도시의 자동차 배기가스에 의한 대기오염문제는 날로 심화되어 가고 있으며, 그 규제 역시 매 우 엄격해지고 있다. 배기가스의 문제는 연소실내에서의 고효율연소에 의해 개선될 수 있으며, 이 를 위해서는 혼합가스 생성장치에서의 잘 미립화된 혼합가스의 생성에 관한 미시적 연구가 필수 적이다. 본 연구에서는 범용 유체 유동해석, 프로그램을 이용하여 Butterfly밸브 주위에서의 공기 의 흐름현상을 예측하였으며, 밸브의 손실계수(Kv)를 실험치와 비교하여 보았다. 또한 압축성과 비압축성 유체 유동해석의 비교, Residual Mass(R. M)의 최적치 정의에 의한 CPU 시간의 최소 화, Numerical Grid Size의 해석결과에 미치는 영향 등에 관해 알아보았다.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.105-111
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• 1993

내연기관의 혼합 가스 생성 장치로 흡입되는 공기의 유량을 조절하기 위해 Butterfly 밸브가 사용 된다. 이 밸브는 유량의 제어에는 매우 유용한 반면, 밸브 후면에서의 복잡한 공기의 유동현상[6] 으로 인하여 혼합가스의 생성에 장해적인 요소를 제공하기도 한다. 특히 밸브가 많이 닫힌 상태 에서는 밸브와 관로벽 사이의 간격이 좁아지는 Throttling 현상으로 인하여, 엔진에 고 부하시 흡 입되는 공기의 양이 증가하게 되어, 밸브 주위에서 공기 속도의 급증으로 인하여 유동장의 압축 성 현상을 기대할 수 있다. Throttle의 Choking 현상으로 인하여 공기의 입자는 운동에너지를 잃 게 되고, 궁극적 혼합가스의 생성에 영향을 미쳐 엔진성능의 저하를 초래하게 된다. 본 연구에서 는 실제 엔진(Central Fuel Injection Engine, 5 liters) [1]의 흡인 manifold를 modelling하여, 특히 밸브가 많이 닫힌 상태에서, 밸브 주위에서의 난류 유동의 압축성 현상을 정량적으로 분석해 보았다.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.39-51
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• 1998

This paper describes the analysis of flow field around an automobile. The governing equations of the 3-D unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved by the iterative time marching scheme. The Chimera grid technique has been applied to efficiently simulate the flow around the side-view mirror. To validate the capability of simulating the flow around a ground vehicle, the flows around the Ahmed body with 12.5$^{\circ}$ and 30$^{\circ}$ of slant angles are simulated and good agreements with experiment and other numerical results are achieved. To validate Chimera grid technique, the flow field around a cylinder was also calculated. The computed results are also well agreed with other numerical results and experiment. After code validations, the flow phenomena around the ground vehicle are evidently shown. The flow around the side-view mirror is also well simulated using the Chimera grid technique.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.75-83
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• 2001

In this paper, numerical analysis is used to find the effects of inclination of rear end on flow characteristic around an automobile. The reference slant angle of rear end is 28.6$^{\circ}$, the slant angle of rear end is decreased to 24$^{\circ}$, 26.6$^{\circ}$ and also increased to 31.6$^{\circ}$, 36.4$^{\circ}$. The 3-D incompressible Navier-Stockes equations are solved by the iterative time marching scheme. The computed surface pressure coefficients were compared with experimental results and a good agreement has been achieved. The A- and C-pillar vortex and other flow phenomena around the ground vehicle are evidently shown. The variation of aerodynamic coefficients of drag, lift with respect to inclination angle of rear end are systematically studied. The flow characteristic on the automobile surface with respect to change of inclination of rear end have been also studied.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.84-91
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• 2001

To investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of the on a road vehicle, experimenrs were performed at an Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel. The scaled model of an automobile with 1 : 3 scaling ratio was used. The Reynolds number based on the free stream velocity and model length was $7.93{\times}10^5$. The influence of crosswind to the stability of automobile was investigated by the pressure distribution measurements and flow visualization studies. with the variation of the angle of attack, the change in pressure coefficient depends highly on the flow separation regimes. The experimental and numerical results are compared and found to be in good agreements.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.161-166
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• 2019

This study examines the flows near the different side mirrors by analyzing the flow due to air resistance at A, B and C models of automotive side mirrors. Model A is a square-shaped side-mirror. Model B is a triangular side-mirror and model C is an oval-shaped side-mirror. The air resistance of the side-mirror while driving is reduced and the automotive power can be reduced by changing the design of automotive side-mirror. As analysis result, as the pressure of air resistance against side mirror becomes larger, it can be seen that the air flow rate becomes great. Therefore, it can be estimated that the smaller the pressure of air resistance, the smaller the flow rate and the better the air flow. Therefore, it can be acknowledged that model B is the best model. As the design data of the automotive side mirror obtained on the basis of this study result are utilized, the esthetic sense can be shown while driving a car at real life.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.19-23
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• 2014

In this study, the air resistance is studied by using flow analysis near automotive body due to the its shape. Flow velocities of airs entering into inlet plane are two kinds of 70 km/h and 100 km/h. Air resistance in case of high speed driving(100 km/h) becomes higher than regular speed driving(70 km/h) and the resistance in case of the car with wider cross section at front side becomes higher than narrower cross section. By using this analysis result, the shape of automotive body can be effectively designed in order to reduce the air resistance.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.32-36
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• 2011

인류의 좀더 빨리 이동하고자 하는 욕구를 충족시키기 위해 항공기, 자동차, 기차 등 다양한 형태의 운송수단이 개발되고 있다. 이러한 운송체의 주위를 흐르는 공기의 유동과 유사한 환경을 만들어 실험하고자 하는 목적에서 풍동이라는 실험장치가 개발되었다. 이 글에서는 풍동의 역사와 종류에 대하여 간략히 소개하고자 한다.