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Investigation of Buoyancy Driven Flow in a Simplified Full Scale Underhood – PIV and Temperature Measurements

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Book cover The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles II: Trucks, Buses, and Trains

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics ((LNACM,volume 41))

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Results of the detailed flow measurements for an underhood buoyancy driven flow using a simplified full scale model of an engine compartment, engine block, and exhaust heaters are presented. The engine block surface temperature and exhaust heaters are kept at about 100 °C and 600 °C, respectively. This investigation reveals the complex dominant flow structures and thermal behavior of a vehicle underhood under steady state and transient states.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 4601 Campus Drive, Western Michigan University, Michigan, Michigan, USA

    P. Merati & C.H. Leong

  2. General Motors Corporation, 30200 Mound Rd., Warren, Michigan, USA

    K.H. Chen & J.P. Johnson

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  1. Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1191, USA

    Fred Browand

  2. Center for Advanced Fluid Dynamics Applications (CAFDA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O.Box 808, L-098, Livermore, CA 94551, USA

    Rose McCallen

  3. NASA Ames Research Center, Experimental Physics Branch MS 260-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA

    James Ross

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Merati, P., Leong, C., Chen, K., Johnson, J. (2009). Investigation of Buoyancy Driven Flow in a Simplified Full Scale Underhood – PIV and Temperature Measurements. In: Browand, F., McCallen, R., Ross, J. (eds) The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles II: Trucks, Buses, and Trains. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 41. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85070-0_6

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