Course Project: Automotive Aerodynamics
Potential Project Topics (these are only examples, you can propose your own)
• Vehicle (aerodynamic) interaction on roads
• Active aerodynamic devices (of your choice)
• Aerodynamic device in trailer trucks (of your choice)
• Underbody aerodynamics
• Effect of hot roads on electric car batteries
• Aerodynamics of generic road vehicle geometry
• Wind propelled road vehicle aerodynamic analysis
Project Report Guide
The project must have the following format, at a minimum.
1) Cover page with a project title
2) Abstract
3) Table of content
4) Introduction (highlight the importance of the topic, present some background about the system, and state the specific objectives)
5) Methodology (CFD setup, theoretical analysis, grid quality, grid independence, error analysis, etc.)
6) Results and Discussion (present your results in graphs and tables and their discussions in detail)
7) Conclusions (state the main findings of your project)
8) Nomenclature (list all symbols used in your report, with the corresponding SI units)
9) List of references (any format is acceptable but must be consistent)
Note the following:
All reports will be submitted to Turnitin to check for plagiarism
Similarity must be below 10%
No upper page limit, but a minimum of 15 pages.
12font, Times New Roman, double spacing. 25.4 cm margins