Parametric Study of Drag Force on a Formula Student Electric Race Car Using CFD

Lalit Patidar; Sri Ramya Bhamidipati

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.575.300

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Parametric Study of Drag Force on a Formula Student Electric Race Car Using CFD

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Aerodynamic drag plays an important role in fuel economy of the vehicle especially for electric cars directly affecting the range. The objective of Aerodynamics subsystem of IIT Bombay racing team is to predict and minimize drag force on the Formula student electric race car thereby improving the performance. A standard generic car body known as Ahmed body is taken to set up simulation parameters in FLUENT by validating a test case against the experimental data available in literature. Variation and dependence of drag force on parameters such as frontal area, distribution of pressure coefficient and pressure loss in wake region is studied numerically. Comparison is made between Formula Student 2013 car Evo2 and newly designed car Evo3 for coming season of Formula Student 2014. A substantial reduction in drag force of 18.8% is achieved which can be attributed to lower frontal area and streamlined bodyworks design. Energy consumption of the vehicle for endurance race is reduced by 11.5 % improving the fuel economy.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 575)

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June 2014

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Lalit Patidar*, Sri Ramya Bhamidipati

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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Fluent, Formula Student/Formula SAE Competition, Vehicle Aerodynamics

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