Active and Passive Flow Control around Simplified Ground Vehicles

Authors

1 Direction de la recherche RENAULT, France

2 Université Bordeaux, IMB, UMR 5251, F-33400 Talence, France.

3 LPP (UMR CNRS 8524) Université Lille 1 and Team SIMPAF INRIA Lille Nord Europe, France

Abstract

The aim of this work is to control the flow around ground vehicles by active or/and passive strategies. The active control is achieved by steady, pulsed or closed-loop jets located at the backof the simplified car model. The passive control is performed using porous layers between the solid body and the fluid in order to modify the shear forces. The two previous control methods can be coupled to improve the drag reduction.

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