A transient heat transfer mathematical model for the prediction of temperature distribution in the car body during primer baking has been developed by considering the thermal radiation and convection in the furnace chamber and transient heat conduction governing equations in the car framework. The car cockpit is considered like a structure with six flat plates, four vertical plates representing...

Car body lightening and crashworthiness are two important objectives of car design. Due to their excellent performance, composite materials are extensively used in the car industries. In addition, reducing the weight of vehicle is effective in decreasing the fuel consumption. Hat shape energy absorber is used in car’s doors for side impact protection. The aim of these numerical models and expe...

We propose and study a one-dimensional traffic flow cellular automaton (CA) model of high speed vehicles with rapid acceleration as in Fukui-Ishibashi (FI) model and with stochastic delay as in Nagel-Schreckenberg (NS) model. This model is different from the NS model in that only the cars following the trail of the ahead car can be delayed. In other words, a car with spacing ahead longer than t...

In this paper, we present a car tracking system which provides quantitative and qualitative motion estimates of the tracked car simultaneously from a moving observer. First, we construct three motion models (constant velocity, constant acceleration, and turning) to describe the qualitative motion of a moving car. Then the models are incorporated into the Extended Kalman Filters to perform quant...