In this tutorial, we study the external flow aerodynamics around a sports car. The analysis model consists of the wind tunnel (air volume) with the car cut from it:
Here is the car:
Note that the car is not actually included in the model except as a cutout from the wind tunnel part.
Air flowing at 80 mph flows over the car in the wind tunnel. We cut the model half and used symmetry to reduce the overall analysis size.
Key Topics
- External flow
- Incompressible, turbulent, steady state flow
- Mesh Refinement Region
- Symmetric geometry
- Particle trace models such as spheres, cylinders,and comets
- Wall Calculator for assessing flow-induced forces
Goals