Solar Electric Car Body Design And Analysis

Solar car is considered as "future car" because of its no harmful emission and driven by solar energy. Its R&D is beneficial to the development of related technology of the car, so as to let solar car serve people truly in the future. A solar car with the aim at participating in the race is designed in this paper, research work related to design and computation of the car body are introduced, which mainly include:1 The method and steps of three-dimensional modeling of solar car body is researched, and the three-dimensional geometrical model of solar car body is set up with the help of computer aided design.2 The simulation model of the flow-field outside the car body is built using computational fluid dynamics, the method of numerical simulation of the flow-field outside the car body is researched.3 Aiming at reducing CD A and considering other factors simultaneously, several design schemes are analyzed and compared with each other, and finally the relatively ideal design scheme of the car body is obtained.4 The body structure and its accessories are designed in detail, which mainly include: the linking and fixation of body and frame; the canopy design and its linking with body; moving structure of the canopy; the sealing of front and back body design and the top board of solar cells design;There are some differences between the body of the solar car and conventional cars, the research work that have been done in this paper makes a good foundation for the solar car development.