WILL AERODYNAMIC DESIGN MAKE ALL CARS LOOK ALIKE?

Aerodynamics plays an increasing role in the search by car designers for better cars. A low drag coefficient has become a criterion of quality, but will this mean future cars looking alike? The answer is that as long as passenger cars avoid a strictly "ideal" aerodynamic design, the fear of uniformity is unfounded. Examples are quoted to show that the systematic application of aerodynamics to car design does not reduce the scope for creativity, but can increase it. (Author/TRRL)

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• Corporate Authors:

  Inderscience Enterprises Limited

  La Motte Chambers
  St Helier, Jersey,   England 
• Authors:
  • Hucho, W H
• Publication Date: 1984-5

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 364-373
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Vehicle Design
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Limited
  • ISSN: 1477-5360
  • Serial URL: http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aerodynamic components; Aerodynamics; Automobiles; Coefficients; Design; Evaluation and assessment; Optimization; Shape; Vehicle design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Optimum
• ITRD Terms: 1337: Aerodynamic device; 5492: Aerodynamics; 1243: Car; 6410: Coefficient; 9011: Design (overall design); 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 9073: Shape
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00388878
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 380
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 30 1985 12:00AM