Structure clearance design in wind tunnel tests with implications for aerodynamic drag of high-speed trains

Zhixiang Huang, Hanjie Huang, Weiping Zeng, Li Chen and Renyu Zhu

International Journal of Rail Transportation, 2023, vol. 11, issue 6, 961-972

Abstract: The influences of vestibule diaphragm gap, wheel-rail clearance, and strut-plate gap on the aerodynamic drag of a 1/8th-scale HST model were investigated in an 8 m × 6 m wind tunnel. The Reynolds number was set to 2.2 × 106 based on train height. It was found that the variation of the vestibule diaphragm gap changed the aerodynamic drag distribution pattern of each car; the drag coefficient of the head and middle cars might change as high as 45%; however, the change in the drag coefficient of the total train was very small. The effects of the strut-plate gap on the aerodynamic drag of each car and the total train were small. The effect of the wheel-rail clearance on the drag of the head car was not significant. It was suggested that the vestibule diaphragm gap, strut-plate gap and wheel-rail clearance of the 1:8 scale high-speed train model should not be greater than 11, 15, and 7 mm, respectively.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/23248378.2022.2123862

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