Acknowledgements
This tutorial was
developed by Grant Weber and Heather Phillips as their term project
for Mechanical Engineering 589 - EcoDesign and Manufacturing
taught by Professor Steven J. Skerlos at the University of Michigan
College of Engineering; December, 2004.
We would like to thank Cheng, Krause,
Thompson, Kostun for the development of their "ME599 Term
Project Webpage", December 7, 2001.
The following resources
were used in compilation of this tutorial:
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"ME599 Term Project Webpage"; Cheng, Krause,
Thompson, Kostun; December 7, 2001
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http://www.fueleconomy.gov/;
United States Department of Energy, Environmental Protection
Agency, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; November 29,
2004
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/energy_transport/atlas/html/transport.html;
European Network of Energy Agencies; November 2004
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"Reducing
Drag Forces in Future Vehicles"; Diehl, Lopes, Miranda,
Simu, Viji; Department of Thermo and Fluid Dynamics, Chalmers
University of Technology; Autumn 2002;
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"Contribution
of Different Devices to the Total Drag"; Nedelec-Berroche,
Nieter, Rousseau, Suard; Department of Thermo and Fluid Dynamics,
Chalmers University of Technology; Autumn 2002;
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"Materials
for Future Automotive Body Structures"; Wallentowitz,
Leyers, Parr; Business Briefing: Global Automotive Manufacturing
& Technology 2003
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Capitalism"; Hawken, A. Lovins, L. Lovins; published by
Little, Brown (1999); page 29
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Diesel Engines Work"; Brain; from http://www.howthingswork.com/;
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ADVISOR 2002; Advanced Vehicle Simulator software created
by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy
Laboratory's Center for Transportation Technologies and
Systems.
Special thanks to Miles Chan (chanky@umich.edu) for ADVISOR
software assistance
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MATLAB Version 6.1.0.450 Release 12.1; ADVISOR runs in the
MATLAB/Simulink environment (note: ADVISOR 2002 only runs in this
older version of
MATLAB)
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http://www.dot.ca.gov/; California Department of
Transportation; October 2004
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http://www.epa.gov/oar/caa/contents.html; Environmental
Protection Agency; Clean Air Act; National Ambient Air Quality
Standards; November 2004
- Skerlos, Steven; Univeristy of
Michigan; ME 589; Air Transport Lecture; October 21, 2004
- Masters, 1991; Gaussian
Dispersion Figures
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