Road Vehicle Aerodynamics detailed syllabus for Automobile Engineering (Auto) for 2019 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Auto students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Automobile Engineering 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Auto 7th Sem 2019 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to Auto Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of road vehicle aerodynamics is as follows.
Course Objective:
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Unit I
Scope of Road Vehicle Aerodynamics
Introduction, Properties of Incompressible Fluids, Flow Phenomena Related to Vehicles, Overall Forces and Moments, Resistances to Vehicle Motion, Performance, Fuel Consumption and Fuel Economy, Strategy for Lowest Fuel Consumption.
Unit II
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Unit III
Aerodynamic Drag On Commercial Vehicles
Relation between Tractive Resistance, Drag Reduction and Fuel Consumption, Aerodynamic Drag Coefficients of Various Commercial Vehicles, Drag Minimization on Trucks, Buses. Add- on devices for drag reduction. Reduction of Vehicle Soiling.
Unit IV
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Unit V
Wind Tunnels, Measurement and Test Techniques
Fundamentals of Wind Tunnel Technique, Tests with Reduced-Scale Models – Details of Model Construction and Test Technique, Reynolds Number Effects, Climatic Tunnels. Measuring Equipment and Transducers – Measurement of Aerodynamic Forces and Moments, Pressure Measurements, Measurement of the Airflow Velocity, Temperature Measurement.
Course Outcome:
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Text Books:
- Alan Pope, Jewel B. Barlow, William H. Rae “Low speed wind tunnel testing”, John Wiley and Sons, Third edition, 1999
- Hucho. W.H. – “Aerodynamic of Road Vehicles – From Fluid Mechanics to Vehicle Engineering”, Society of Automotive Engineers, U.S, Fourth edition, 1998
References:
- R.H.Barnard – “Road vehicle aerodynamic design, An Introduction” , Mechaero publications, Third edition, 2010
- T. Yomi Obidi – “Theory and Applications of Aerodynamics for Ground Vehicles” , SAE International, 2014 89
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Automobile Engineering 7th Sem, visit Auto 7th Sem subject syllabuses for 2019 regulation.
For all Automobile Engineering results, visit Anna University Auto all semester results direct link.