Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1996-12-16
1999-03-02
Trans, Vincent N.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
364578, G06F 1750
Patent
active
058779680
ABSTRACT:
A method for designing an automotive vehicle body shape having fixed and free boundaries to meet a pre-specified velocity or pressure distribution for a portion of the vehicle body migrates a set of vortex elements, whose strengths are related to the desired velocity and pressure distributions, until they reach spatial positions consistent with the desired velocity and pressure profile. A desired velocity and pressure profile is specified for a first portion and a shape is specified for a second portion of the vehicle body, and an initial shape for the first portion is estimated having a free surface cross-section, which is divided into free surface elements. Free surface vorticies are assigned in one-to-one correspondence to the free surface elements, and fixed surface vorticies in one-to-one correspondence with the fixed surface elements are determined. For each of the free surface elements, an x-axis velocity component and a y-axis velocity component is determined based upon the free surface vorticies and the fixed surface vorticies. These velocity components are then used to realign the planar orientation of each of the plurality of free surface elements. Determination of new x-axis and y-axis velocity components and realignment of the free surface cross-section continues until each of the free surface elements is within a predetermined tolerance.
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Leep-Apolloni Laurine Joyce
Strumolo Gary Steven
Ford Global Technologies Inc.
Kelley David B.
Trans Vincent N.
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