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Nowadays, outer surface design of passenger cars is not just a matter of styling and safety but air flow around car body and exterior accessories has significant effect on fuel consumption, performance and dominantly on the wind noise. In recent years, passenger comfort is one of the most challenging and important automotive attributes for car makers. Controlling the turbulence eddies that causes aerodynamic noise can remarkably affect passenger's comfort quality. Identification of aerodynamic sources is considered as the first step in order to control the wind noise. In this research, computational fluid dynamics method is applied to simulate the wind flow around the car and the investigation of aerodynamic noise pattern is performed by numerical method which is the most prevalent way that is used by auto industries.

Improvements of aerodynamics and wind noise are two important objectives for automotive engineers. Improvement of aerodynamics behavior and the reduction of wind noise have been always greatly concerned by automotive engineers since they negatively affect passengers comfort, fuel consumption, car performance and, stability. In this paper, optimum levels of four dominant rear shape parameters for a simplified car model are investigated considering drag coefficient and aerodynamic noise objectives. C-Pillar angle, trunk angle, boat tail angle and rear box length are considered as variable parameters. Taguchi method is used for finding aerodynamic and acoustic optimum levels. Numerical simulation for base case is compared with experimental results in the literature. Numerical results show good agreement with experimental test. Afterwards, optimum levels for parameters regarding objectives are calculated using Taguchi method.