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Automotive Engineering ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (5): 713-720.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2021.05.010

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Optimization of Aerodynamic Drag Coefficient for a Cabover Truck Considering the Effects of Crosswind

Yingchao Zhang,Tao Liu,Huinan Cao,Zhe Zhang(),Guohua Wang   

  1. Jilin University,State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control,Changchun 130022
  • Received:2020-07-17 Revised:2020-09-19 Online:2021-05-25 Published:2021-05-18
  • Contact: Zhe Zhang E-mail:zhangzhejlu@jlu.edu.cn

Abstract:

In this paper, the aerodynamic drag coefficient of a cabover truck is optimized with consideration of the effects of crosswind. Firstly, a model for the cabover truck is built and simplified, with the weighted drag coefficient, which is obtained based on the distribution probability of crosswind at different deflection angles, as the evaluation indicator of drag reduction optimization. Then with the simplified model as the model for parameter optimization, seven styling parameters of cab and three styling parameters of cargo container are selected as design variables, combined with Latin hypercube sampling, two variants of the design of experiments are proposed: taking the weighted drag coefficient and the drag coefficient without crosswind as the response, respectively, in which 40 samples of cab and 16 samples of cargo container are generated, and a simulation is conducted to obtain the drag coefficients at different deflection angles and hence the weighted drag coefficient. Finally, an optimization is performed by utilizing the Kriging approximation model of Isight platform and using the adaptive simulated annealing optimization algorithm and an optimized scheme for drag reduction is obtained. The results show that the weighted drag coefficient of the optimized cab reduces by 168 counts, equivalent to a falling rate of 21.90%; the weighted drag coefficient of the cargo container reduces by 94 counts, equivalent to a dropping rate of 12.25%, achieving an apparent drag reduction effect.

Key words: cabover truck, aerodynamic drag reduction optimization, crosswind, weighted drag coefficient