Boundary element methods for road vehicle aerodynamics

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BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHODS FOR
ROAD VEHICLE AERODYNAMICS
by
NAWAZISH ALL SHAH
M.Sc. (PAK) , M.Sc. (U.K.)
A Doctoral Thesis
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements
for the award of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
of the Loughborough University of Technology
October, 1985
Supervisor: Dr. K.S. PEAT, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Department of Engineering Mathematics,
Loughborough ·University of Technology.
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CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY
This is to certify that I am responsible for the work submitted
in this thesis, that the original work is my own except. as
specified in acknowledgements or in footnotes, and that neither
the thesis nor the original work contained therein has been
submitted to this or any other institution for a higher degree.
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DEDICATION
To my wife and children
~arents,
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ACKNOWLEDGEHENTS
I begin in the name of Allah the most Beneficient, the most Herciful.
All praise be to Allah, who is the Lord of the whole universe and the
source of all knowledge. I thank Allah for giving me the strength and
energy to complete this work and making everything possible.
I am deeply indebted to Dr. K.S. Peat for his supervision,
guidance, help and encouragement at every stage during the progress of
my research work and in preparation of the manuscript of this thesis.
His invaluable suggestions and comments helped considerably in the
development of the work presented here. He has always been friendly
and cooperative and his readiness to assist me at all times has been
remarkable.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the staff of the
Engineering Hathematics Department for their help and cooperation,
in particular, to my Director of Research, Professor A. C. Bajpai, for
extending to me the departmental facilities and for his advice and help
on a number of occassions.
I wish to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to my
parents and mother-in-law for their patience, encouragement and
prayful blessings for my welfare and success. I am deeply grieved
for the death of my fath~r-in-law in my absence from Pakistan, who had
always wished 'for my higher education but can no longer witness this
thesis; my ultimate gratitude.
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My deepest gratitude goes to my wife for her moral support,
constant encouragement and help throughout the course of my study.
Special thanks for my children who have made my stay in the U.K.
joyful.
I would like to thank BL Technology Ltd. for providing me with
the results of their wind tunnel tests over the models of car bodies.
Thanks are also due to the British Council for providing me the
financial support for the period of my studies in the U.K.
Finally, my thanks go to Mrs. Barbara Bell for her beautiful
typing of this thesis.