[florian_krause]

Hi everybody!
I am picking up ConnClark's post from the 'Car aerodynamics' thread:

Move over Ahmed. There's a new reference in town. Its called DrivAer

discussion
http://www.aer.mw.tum.de/en/research-groups/automotive/
more discussion about the models
http://www.aer.mw.tum.de/en/research...otive/drivaer/
even more discussion with an email to request the models in IGES or STEP format.
http://www.aer.mw.tum.de/en/research...vaer/geometry/
a paper with CD and other info
http://delphi.com/pdf/techpapers/2012-01-0168.pdf

Let the openFoam case files begin to flow

I know that some work has been done already with OF and the DrivAer car model. However, I am just at the very beginning to simulate (steady-state and transient) the flow around the DrivAer model...

I think its good to have one thread specifically related to the DrivAer model, which in my opinion, will be the next standard benchmark test for external car aerodynamic simulation. I am happy to share my experience, questions etc here.

Cheers,
Florian

[Vignesh2508]

Hello Florian,

I was searching for a car geometry to simulate in Openfoam. I found the Drivaer model(.stl file) and I downloaded the model after submitting a request. I was going to use snappyHexmesh to simulate the flow.

But I got some sort of error when I tried to visualise the .stl file in Paraview before meshing it(I opened the body_closed file in the .stl zip file). Could you please help me out on how to use the Drivaer model in Openfoam?


Thank you

Vicky