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Effect of rear slant angle on vehicle crosswind stability simulation on a simplified car model

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posted on 2017-09-01, 10:52 authored by Shuhaimi Mansor, Martin Passmore
It is important to know the effect of the aerodynamic forces and moments on driving stability because it is responsible for the excitation and influences the response of the vehicle. The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of rear slant angle of a surface vehicle on crosswind sensitivity for stability analysis. The vehicle mathematical model used to conduct a dynamic simulation was based on a simple reduced order lateral dynamics of sideslip and yaw rate motion coupled with aerodynamics model. The intention here is to compare the effect of rear slant angles response to crosswind and to rank the crosswind sensitivity ratings. The aerodynamic loads are defined as the function of the aerodynamic derivatives from the static wind tunnel tests. Result shows a 20° rear slant angle demonstrates the highest rating of crosswind sensitivity, while zero degree slant exhibits the least.

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Published in

International Journal of Automotive Technology

Volume

14

Issue

5

Pages

701 - 706

Citation

MANSOR, S. and PASSMORE, M.A., 2013. Effect of rear slant angle on vehicle crosswind stability simulation on a simplified car model. International Journal of Automotive Technology, 14 (5), pp. 701-706.

Publisher

© Springer and The Korean Society of Automotive Engineers

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2013

Notes

This paper is closed access.

ISSN

1229-9138

eISSN

1976-3832

Language

  • en

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