AerodynaDlic Drag of Road Vehicles Past, （AerodynaDlic拖的公路车辆过去,）.pdf

The 1933 Pierce Silver Arrow had many of the aerodynamicfeatures usually credited to the 1934 Chrysler Airflow. The AerodynaDlic Drag of Road Vehicles Past, Present, and Future by William H. Bettes AERODYNAMIC drag is the force opposite to the vehicles aerodynamic efficiency. (Aerodynamic direction of motion that acts on a body moving drag = (pf2) Co • A • V2, where p is air density, through air - sayan automobile or a truck - A is the projected frontal area of the body, and V and retards its movement. The engine power, is velocity.) Even though aerodynamic drag is which can be read as fuel consumption, needed to critically dependent on the velocity, it is only the overcome aerodynamic drag makes the aerody- product Co times A that the designer can control. namic design of road vehicles a very timely issue The reason aerodynamic losses are so i~portant and one that must be considered. relative to engine power is that the power re- Drag is only one of the aerodynamic forces quired to overcome these losses is a function of acting on vehicles; the others are the lift force and the cube of the velocity. In most of my discussion the side force. Since these forces and the mo- I will be considering highway driving, because, at ments associated with their axes (rolling, yawing, highway speeds, overcoming aerodynamic drag is and pitching) are dependent on the square of the responsible fo