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Mechanical engineers help design Freightliner wind tunnel
Portland-based Freightliner LLC recently opened a new 12,000-square foot wind tunnel facility, designed by a team of engineers from Freightliner, NASA, and Portland State University. The wind tunnel is an advanced transportation research facility for studying the aerodynamics of heavy- and medium-duty vehicles that will enable engineers to reduce fuel consumption and noise, and to improve air circulation around vehicles in rainy weather.
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| All Freightliner LLC commercial vehicles will be tested at its new wind tunnel research facility, which can generate wind speeds of 65 MPH. |
Professor Gerry Recktenwald, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and his graduate student Bhaskar Bhatnagar performed computer simulations to determine the shape of the wind tunnel walls. All Freightliner LLC commercial vehicles will be tested at this new research facility.
