A Wind Tunnel Study of the Windsor Body with a Streamlined Tail
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- SAE Paper
No.2021-01-0954
- Pages
- 1-15(Total 15 p)
- Date of publication
- Apr 2021
- Publisher
- SAE International
- Language
- English
- Event
- SAE WCX Digital Summit 2021
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| Author(E) | 1) Jeff Howell, 2) Max Varney, 3) Eleanor Rajaratnam, 4) Martin Passmore |
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| Affiliation(E) | 1) Loughborough University, 2) Loughborough University, 3) Loughborough University, 4) Loughborough University |
| Abstract(E) | The effects of adding a streamlined tail to a simple vehicle shape, represented by the Windsor Body has been investigated in a small scale wind tunnel experiment. The extended tail has a constant width, with a flat lower surface and a constant upper surface taper angle. The tail is truncated in steps to understand the trends in the principal aerodynamic characteristics. The slant surface and the base have been pressure tapped to indicate the contribution to drag and lift from these surfaces. The bodies have been tested over a range of yaw angles and wind tunnel airspeeds. The effects of adding wheels, albeit in a fixed ground experiment, has also been studied. The experimental data for the basic wheel-less body in a squareback configuration and with tapered tails of different length at zero yaw has been compared with an earlier CFD simulation of the same configurations. While it is recognized that the longer models have impractical shapes, the systematic development provides a useful insight into the development of low drag bodies. |
