In this work we implement software to investigate the aerodynamics of hydroplaning phenomenon on an isolated wheel. The isolated wheel, Fackrell’s A2 wheel is the most common used benchmark and is applied here, and since the wheel is contact with the ground, the geometric setup of contact patch is rather important in our simulation in order to prevent the high skewness grid situation. Our results of C_L and C_D of A2 wheel model comparing with experiment results are all under 1% error. Also, our simulation of hydroplaning phenomenon utilizes the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method to simulate this two-phase flow problem. Although using different numerical approach, our results show that the current hydroplaning model is qualitatively and quantitatively similar to the results of earlier works. Furthermore, we might claim that innovative and straight forward approaches to simulate the dynamic hydroplaning phenomenon have been achieved.
