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CFD Used to Explore Truck Platooning Technologies
Posted Sun November 10, 2019 @09:56PM
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Application Pointwise has published the case study, Researchers use CFD to Help Quantify the Benefits of Truck Platooning Technologies, which is based on research done at Auburn University.

The practice of drafting – where moving objects are grouped tightly together to conserve energy by exploiting the lead object’s slipstream – has been used in motorsports, cycling, and speedskating for years. Right now, however, drafting is too dangerous on the open road.


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To gain any real fuel efficiencies, drivers would have to follow each other so closely they would not be able to respond quickly enough in an emergency. Truck platooning is an emerging technology that can enable commercial truck fleets to link heavy trucks together using wireless communications, adaptive cruise control, crash avoidance systems, and automatic coupling/decoupling features. By being able to react to dangerous situations more quickly than human drivers, these automated technologies can reduce safe following distances enough to allow drafting efficiencies to kick-in. Find out how CFD is helping the commercial trucking industry develop platooning technologies for safer roads and increased fuel efficiency.

Read the case study, “Researchers use CFD to Help Quantify the Benefits of Truck Platooning Technologies.” https://ptwi.se/33qnvYM

Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) today – reliably generating high-fidelity meshes. The company's Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured, overset and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers such as ANSYS FLUENT®, STAR-CCM+®, OpenFOAM®, and SU2 as well as many neutral formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and has a scripting language, Glyph, that can automate CFD meshing. Manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide have relied on Pointwise as their complete CFD preprocessing solution since 1994.

Pointwise is a registered trademark of Pointwise, Inc. in the USA and the EU. Pointwise Glyph, T-Rex and Let's Talk Meshing are trademarks of Pointwise, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owner.

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