Flow Around a Solar Vehicle(FASV)
- Objective:
- This task aims to determine the drag coefficient Cx of a solar vehicle
developed for the next World Solar Challenge in Australia
- Duration and Staff: 4 weeks + defence. For 1 couple of
students.
- Schedule:
FASV.1: Construction of the mesh of the fluid domain around the real
solar vehicle using PREBFC, refering to a Fax copy of a drawing at scale.
FASV.2: Determination of the suitable boundary conditions of the problem.
FASV.3: Computation of the flow due to the motion of the solar vehicle
using FLUENT.
FASV.4: Determination of the subsequent drag coefficient.
Final material : Mesh of the solar vehicle but without
any consistent results because of the difficulties we had to obtain the
real geometry.
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Week 1
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Week 2
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Week 3
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Week 4
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FASV.1
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FASV.2
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FASV.3
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FASV.4
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Educational benefit: Use of Fluent for a real engineering
problem
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