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Working of gearbox in driving simulators
I am a newbie in this field.
Please help me in gaining a bit initial fundamental knowledge in simple language.
How are gearbox ratios interpreted in driving simulators? Are the gearboxes used in ...
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Calculating final drive force from engine torque and tyre spin ratio
Trying to build a simplified physics simulation for cars, along the lines of "Car Physics" by Marco Monster. I'm stuck at straight line acceleration. I don't know if I understand the ...
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Pacejka "Magic Formula" tire models origin of the name
It might be a little off topic but I'm trying to find source for why is that model called magic formula? I read that it's a simple function of commonplace functions, a data fitting. Is it simply an ...
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How should the assignment to test software for a vehicle’s VCU be aproached?
As a graduation project, I was assigned to solve the following problem:
How can the vehicle’s behaviour be simulated in the form of a testing programme, with which the VCU software can be fully ...
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What standards exist regarding diagnostic systems in automotive engineering?
I'm designing a diagnostic system that simulates an environment and user input for a dummy vehicle. All possible critical situations are simulated in order to find out whether any errors are triggered,...
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Solidworks Motion capabilities
Is Solidworks Motion capable of finding the torque of the planet carrier (output) in a planetary gear set when in steady state? The sun and ring gears are both inputs and all gears are rotating at a ...
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Non-Clutch Vehicle Drivetrain - How Does it Work?
I am making a vehicle simulation, but just noticed a big issue - there are a lot of cars with no clutch in them, but I haven't driven a car with automatic/clutchless-manual gearbox, nor been even a ...
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Simulation of Automotive Radiators
I'm going to simulate an automotive radiator . The method called $\varepsilon$- NTU , suggests following steps to calculate the heat rejection,$Q$, of a heat exchanger:
1-calculate $U$(overall heat ...
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Automotive Radiator Simulation
I'm developing a code to simulate thermal performance of automotive radiators.
My results are 40% under-predicted. But when I multiply them to 1.6, they match completely.
This is the graph that ...
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