Aerodynamic Analysis of Electric Passenger Car Using Wind Turbine Concept at Front End 2019-28-2396
Electric passenger car with floor battery usually have its front boot space empty and the space is used as additional luggage storage. This space can be utilized to capture the wind energy and generate electricity. Based on this, the objective of this work is to perform an aerodynamic analysis of an electric passenger car using wind turbine placed at the front. Initially the aerodynamic analysis of a basic electric car model is performed and further simulated using wind turbines and aerodynamic add-on-devices. The simulation is carried-out using ANSYS Fluent tool. Based on the simulation result, scaled down optimized model is fabricated and tested in wind tunnel for validation. The result shows reduction of drag coefficient by 5.9%.
Citation: Mendiratta, S., Sharma, S., Agrewale, M., and Vora, K., "Aerodynamic Analysis of Electric Passenger Car Using Wind Turbine Concept at Front End," SAE Technical Paper 2019-28-2396, 2019, https://doi.org/10.4271/2019-28-2396. Download Citation
Author(s):
Snehil Mendiratta, Sugat Sharma, Mohammad Rafiq Agrewale, Kamalkishore Vora
Affiliated:
ARAI Academy, Automotive Research Association of India
Pages: 5
Event:
NuGen Summit
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Electric vehicles
Wind power
Aerodynamics
Electric power
Drag
Wind tunnel tests
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