In this project I worked with a group to create multiple different simple car designs that fell within specific requirements and analyzed them with ANSYS Fluent in an attempt to minimize aerodynamic drag.

ABSTRACT:
The transition from combustion to electric vehicles calls for improved body designs that minimize aerodynamic drag and hence, maximize vehicle range. This paper serves as an exploratory report into the design philosophy and methodologies needed to improve upon car body designs with this requirement in mind. Beginning with an initial car body design, 5 more designs are modeled in Autodesk Fusion 360 and analyzed in ANSYS Fluent. The mathematical model used in ANSYS Fluent is an incompressible, generalized k-ω turbulence model and is solved to generate plots of the velocity contours around the symmetry plane, pressure contours on the body and the drag performance of the designs. Ultimately a design with a drag coefficient of 0.1241 was selected as the final design for this report.