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RECORD NUMBER: 1 OF 22Main Title | Aerodynamics of road vehicles : from fluid mechanics to vehicle engineering / | |||||||||||
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Publisher | Society of Automotive Engineers, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1998 | |||||||||||
Report Number | SAER177 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 37782913 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0768000297; 9780768000290 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Motor vehicles--Aerodynamics ; Vâehicules automobiles--Aâerodynamique | |||||||||||
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Edition | 4th ed. | |||||||||||
Collation | xix, 918 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Notes | 1. Introduction to automobile aerodynamics -- 2. Some fundamentals of fluid mechanics -- 3. Performance of cars and light trucks -- 4. Aerodynamic drag of passenger cars -- 5. Directional stability -- 6. Function, safety and comfort -- 7. Wind noise -- 8. High-performance vehicles -- 9. Commercial vehicles -- 10. Motorcycles -- 11. Engine cooling -- 12. Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning of passenger cars -- 13. Wind tunnels -- 14. Measurement and test techniques -- 15. Computational fluid dynamics. |