#overland #overlanding #cfd
In this video we will cover the home-made Leviathan, an overland truck conceived & built by Jay Jarvie of ‪@BuilderCreator‬ .
We start off by running an ‪@AirShaper‬ simulation on a regular, boxy overland truck. The drag coefficient of around 0.6 is quite bad, meaning it'll spend a lot of energy pushing the air away.
The initial Leviathan design featured a Cd of 0.5, already a large improvement over the reference truck. Based on the simulation results, we discussed a number of tweaks to the vehicle which included:
- Air deflectors at the front wheels
- Less aggressive angles at the front "bumper"
- Softer angles at the top rear
The result was a 4% reduction in drag, which came at hardly any increase in weight or cost. This goes to show that if you include aerodynamics early on in the design process, you can create gains which will benefit you throughout the lifetime of the product at very little to no cost!
Thanks a million to Jay Jarvie - this really was a fun collaboration and we much look forward to seeing the final overland truck :)
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