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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 178, 2018
22nd International Conference on Innovative Manufacturing Engineering and Energy - IManE&E 2018
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| Article Number | 05014 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Design and Analysis, CAD/CAM/CAE/CAx Technologies, Flexible Manufacturing, Automation and Robotics in Technological Processes | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201817805014 | |
| Published online | 24 July 2018 | |
Numeric analysis of airflow around the body of the Silesian Greenpower vehicle
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – Silesian University of Technology Stanisława Konarskiego 18A, 44-100 Gliwice
* Corresponding author: b.stebel@op.pl
Numerical analysis of drag values of an electric race car's body. Silesian Greenpower is a student organization specializing in electric race car design. One of the most important issues during the design is reducing the vehicle drag to minimum and is done, mainly, by designing a streamline car body. The aim of this work was to design two electric cars bodies with different shape in Siemens NX CAD software, next a finite elements mesh was created and implemented into the ANSYS Workbench 16.1 software. Afterwards an aerodynamic analysis was carried out, using the finite element method (FEM). Simulations and calculations have been performed in ANSYS Fluent: CFD Simulation software. Computer simulation allowed to visualize the distribution of air pressure on and around car, the air velocity distribution around the car and aerodynamics streamline trajectory. The results of analysis were used to determine the drag values of electric car and determine points of the highest drag. In conclusion car body representing lower drag was appointed. The work includes theoretical introduction, containing information about finite element method, ANSYS and Siemens NX software and also basic aerodynamics laws.
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