Passive drag reduction of square back road vehicles

• Main Authors: Altaf, Alaman, Omar, Ashraf Ali, Asrar, Waqar
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2014
• Subjects: TL1 Motor vehicles
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/38911/4/1-s2.0-S0167610514001640-main.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/38911/7/38911_Passive%20drag%20reduction%20of%20square%20back%20road%20vehicles.SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/38911/; http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jweia

Bluff body vehicles such as trucks and buses do not have a streamlined shapes and hence have high drag which can be reduced to make great savings in operational cost. While rectangular flaps have been widely studied as both passive add-ons and in active drag reducing systems for bluff bodies, cha...