ISBN 978-3-8439-1765-0

978-3-8439-1765-0, Reihe Ingenieurwissenschaften

Angelina I. Heft
Aerodynamic Investigation of the Cooling Requirements of Electric Vehicles

181 Seiten, Dissertation Technische Universität München (2014), Softcover, A5

Zusammenfassung / Abstract

A consequent low-drag design can help to increase the cruising range of battery electric vehicles. The potential savings in the cooling air drag motivate this investigation.

A dual approach to minimize the cooling air drag of the DrivAer model is proposed: the internal drag is optimized numerically using an adjoint approach while the interference drag at the inlets and outlets of the cooling duct system is investigated experimentally.