Title :
Measurement of the aerodynamic pressures produced by passing trains
Author :
MacNeill, Robert A. ; Holmes, Samuel ; Lee, Harvey S.
Author_Institution :
Appl. Res. Associates, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes measurement of the aerodynamic pressures produced by a Bombardier High-Speed Nonelectric Locomotive (HSNEL) on an adjacent stationary double-stack freight car. Static pressures are measured on the near and farside faces of the freight containers over a range of locomotive speeds from 60 to 130 mph. This data is also compared with the pressures predicted by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations.
Keywords :
aerodynamics; computational fluid dynamics; pressure measurement; railways; 60 to 130 mph; Bombardier High-Speed Nonelectric Locomotive; CFD simulations; adjacent stationary double-stack freight car; aerodynamic pressures measurement; computational fluid dynamics simulations; freight containers; passing trains; testing; Aerodynamics; Computational fluid dynamics; Freight containers; History; Instruments; Predictive models; Pressure gauges; Pressure measurement; Testing; Transportation;
Conference_Titel :
Railroad Conference, 2002 ASME/IEEE Joint
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7452-5
DOI :
10.1109/RRCON.2002.1000094
