Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optimizing jets for wake control of ground vehicles
- Patent Title (中): 优化地面车辆尾流控制的喷气机
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Application No.: US14938910Application Date: 2015-11-12
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Publication No.: US09586632B2Publication Date: 2017-03-07
- Inventor: Domenic Barsotti , Sandra Boetcher
- Applicant: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US FL Daytona Beach
- Assignee: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US FL Daytona Beach
- Agency: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP
- Main IPC: B62D35/00
- IPC: B62D35/00 ; B62D37/02

Abstract:
A system of wake control for a ground vehicle to help promote increased fuel efficiencies of the ground vehicle by modifying an air flow wake generated during the movement of the vehicle in a forward direction. The system includes at least one slot jet configured to be located along a rear profile portion of the ground vehicle. The at least one slot jet is configured to provide a continuous flow of air at a non-zero velocity when the ground vehicle is moving in a forward direction, the non-zero velocity being at least partially directed in a rearward direction with an output velocity less than a velocity at which the ground vehicle is moving in the forward direction, but sufficient to modify the air flow wake generated by the movement of the ground vehicle in the forward direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160137234A1 OPTIMIZING JETS FOR WAKE CONTROL OF GROUND VEHICLES Public/Granted day:2016-05-19
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