Transactions of Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan
Online ISSN : 1883-0811
Print ISSN : 0287-8321
ISSN-L : 0287-8321
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Influence of a Headwind on Fuel Consumption in Hightway Vehicles of Different Cruising Speeds
Yasuo IdeDaisuke AzumaShigeru IkedaKohichi Kajiyama
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2014 Volume 45 Issue 2 Pages 437-442

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Influence of a headwind (wind speed, U) on fuel consumption, fc (L/km), for highway vehicles has been made clear by us with use of increase of fuel consumption, β(U). However vehicle cruising speed, v, was limited and other v remain elusive. So the aerodynamic influence coefficient, KA (v), is first studied and then headwind influence, β(v), can be obtained with α(u) which is increase of air resistance in vehicles due to headwinds. As a result β(v) might be found practically almost constant over v increase in spite of reduction of α(u).
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