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This paper describes the application of the body-fitted-coordinate facility in the general-purpose fluid-dynamics program. PHOENICS. to the prediction of the three-dimensional flow past road-vehicle shapes.
A three-part analysis technique is employed, comprising a linkage of potential, boundary-layer, and viscous solution regions. Grid generation methods for each solution type are described.
Typical results are presented for a variety of automobile shapes.
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Rawnsley, S.M., Qlynn, D.R. (1986). Flow Around Road Vehicles. In: Markatos, N.C., Cross, M., Tatchell, D.G., Rhodes, N. (eds) Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow and Heat/Mass Transfer Processes. Lecture Notes in Engineering, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82781-5_37
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