Numerical simulation of effect of bionic V-riblet non-smooth surface on tire anti-hydroplaning

Abstract

Inspired by the idea that bionic non-smooth surfaces (BNSS) can reduce fluid adhesion and resistance, and the effect of bionic V-riblet non-smooth structure arranged in tire tread pattern grooves surface on anti-hydroplaning performance was investigated by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The physical model of the object (model of V-riblet surface distribution, hydroplaning model) and SST k–ω turbulence model were established for numerical analysis of tire hydroplaning. With the help of a orthogonal table L₁₆(4⁵), the parameters of V-riblet structure design compared to the smooth structure were analyzed, and obtained the priority level of the experimental factors as well as the best combination within the scope of the experiment. The simulation results show that V-riblet structure can reduce water flow resistance by disturbing the eddy movement in boundary layers. Then, the preferred type of V-riblet non-smooth structure was arranged on the bottom of tire grooves for hydroplaning performance analysis. The results show that bionic V-riblet non-smooth structure can effectively increase hydroplaning velocity and improve tire anti-hydroplaning performance. Bionic design of tire tread pattern grooves is a good way to promote anti-hydroplaning performance without increasing additional groove space, so that tire grip performance and roll noise are avoided due to grooves space enlargement.

Keywords

tire / anti-hydroplaning / bionic non-smooth surfaces (BNSS) / numerical simulation

References

[1] MuradM M, AbazaK A. Pavement friction in a program to reduce wet weather traffic accidents at the network level [J]. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2006, 1949: 126-136

[2] HorneW B, DreherR CPhenomena of pneumatic tire hydroplaning [M], 1963USANational Aeronautics and Space Administration1-52

[3] VincentS, SarthouA, CaltagironeJ P, SonilhacF, FevrierP, MignotC, PianetG. Augmented Lagrangian and penalty methods for the simulation of two-phase flows interacting with moving solids: Application to hydroplaning flows interacting with real tire tread patterns [J]. Journal of Computational Physics, 2011, 230(4): 956-983

[4] SuzukiT, FujikawaT. Improvement of hydroplaning performance based on water flow around tires [J]. SAE Paper, 2001

[5] AksenovA, DyadkinA, GudzovskyA. Numerical simulation of car tire aquaplaning [C]. ECCOMAS Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference. France, 1996815-820

[6] GroggerH, WeissM. Calculation of the hydroplaning of a deformable smooth-shaped and longitudinally-grooved tire [J]. Tire Science and Technology, 1997, 25(4): 265-272

[7] ChoJ R, LeeH W, SohnJ S, KimG J, WooJ S. Numerical investigation of hydroplaning characteristics of three-dimensional patterned tire [J]. European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 2006, 25(6): 914-926

[8] WiesB, RoegerB, MundlR. Influence of pattern void on hydroplaning and related target conflicts [J]. Tire Science and Technology, 2009, 37(3): 187-206

[9] RenL-q, LiangY-hCoupling bionics [M], 2011BeijingScience Press

[10] WangG-l, ZhouH-c, YangJ, LiangC, JinL. Study on the influence of bionic non-smooth surface on water flow in antiskid tire tread pattern [J]. Journal of Donghua University: English Edition, 2013, 30(4): 336-342

[11] ZhouC-hCoupling bionics for functions surface of drag and noise reduction based on pigeon body surface [D], 2008JilinJilin University

[12] FishF E, BattleJ M. Hydrodynamic design of the humpback whale flipper [J]. Journal of Morphology, 1995, 225(1): 51-60

[13] WalshM J. Riblets as a viscosity drag reduction technique [J]. AIAA Journal, 1983, 21(4): 485-486

[14] OkanoT, KoishiMHydroplaning Simulation Using MSC.Dytran [C], 2001

[15] LiangC, WangG-l, AnD-f, MaY-w. Tread wear and footprint geometrical characters of truck bus radial tires [J]. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2013, 26(3): 506-511

[16] IsamJ, AliR, VincentETire tread pattern analysis for ultimate performance of hydroplaning. computational fluid and solid mechanics proceedings [C], 2001

[17] ZhaoY, TanH H, ZhangB. A high-resolution characteristicsbased implicit dual time-stepping VOF method for free surface flow simulation on unstructured grids [J]. Journal of Computational Physics, 2002, 183(1): 233-273

[18] ZhaoG, LiF, DuJ-w. Optimization design of bionic jet surface and mechanism analysis of drag reduction [J]. Journal of Central South University: Science and Technology, 2014, 45(5): 1449-1456

[19] WangG-l, ChenH-y. Simulation analysis of hydroplaning characteristics of radial tire [J]. Journal of System Simulation, 2012, 24(8): 1719-1722