중형 차량의 외부 유동특성에 관한 연구

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Computer simulation of the air flow over an automotive vehicle is now becoming a routine process in automotive industry to assess the aerodynamic characteristics of a medium-size vehicle such as C<SUB>d</SUB> and C₁ and aslo to investigate the possibility of improving aerodynamic performance of the vehicle as a preliminary design for the production line. Mainly due to its contribution in saving time and cost in the development of new cars, computer simulation of the air flow over a vehicle is usually done well before a production car is introduced to the market and in gaining more and more attention as powerful computer resources are getting readily available nowadays. To aerodynamically design a car is mainly related with reducing a drag coefficient of car. A well designed car usually has a C<SUB>d</SUB> value in the range of 0.3~0.4. It is understandable that automotive industry is rushing to reduce a drag coefficient as reducing even a small fraction of the C<SUB>d</SUB> value can have an enormous overall impact on many areas. Actually, the present research model was able to achieve a C<SUB>d</SUB> value in the range of 0.3~0.36 for flow velocities of 60 ㎞/h~100 ㎞/h by strategically removing the possible factor hazardous to lower C<SUB>d</SUB> value. Prediction of the medium-size vehicle aerodynamics using CFD was performed when an actual car model was in the development stage and three-dimensional modeling was also performed to optimize it as the best model in terms of the best aerodynamic performance.