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By forcing airflow to veer off the trailer towards the wake behind it, the TopKit Aero System (red) reduces the base wake (blue) and increases the pressure on the truck rear, creating a significant reduction in overall vehicle drag. Image Credit: SmartTruckScience

SmartTruck Steps Up Simulations for Certification by Computation

Long-haul tractor trailers, often referred to as “18-wheelers,” transport everything from household goods to supermarket foodstuffs across the United States every year. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, these trucks moved more than 10 billion tons of goods—70.6 percent of the nation’s total freight shipments—in 2016. But this transport doesn’t…
Rachel McDowell
August 29, 2018
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OLCF 25: Building a SmartTruck

In 2017, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility celebrated 25 years of leadership in high-performance computing. This article is part of a series summarizing a dozen significant contributions to science enabled by OLCF resources. The full report is available here. To increase the fuel efficiency of Class 8 long-haul trucks small…
OLCF Staff Writer
December 6, 2017