FLOW IMPROVEMENT USING CFD FOR PASSENGER CAR : BI AND UNI-DIRECTIONAL APPLICATION
Keywords:
Ventilated brake disc, flow measurement, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), heat transfer.Abstract
This paper presents experimental and Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) investigations of the flow in brake discs. Development of an experiment rig with basic measuring devices are detailed out and validated. The straight blade is improved with different blade configuration with same brake disc dimension. The three dimensional model is simulated in proprietary CFD software FLUENTTM and the mass flow through the ventilated blades are compared. From the simulations, it can be concluded that the improving the blade yields a great mass flow improvement which would improve the heat transfer performance but it constrained the disc to be uni-directional disc.References
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