The key laboratory focuses on the themes of safety, comfort, energy conservation, and environmental protection of ground transportation vehicles (such as automobiles and rail transit vehicles), as well as the significant needs of China's national economic development. It aims at the international forefront and national goals, and is positioned on the basic theories, common key technologies, macro development basic issues, and application technology issues of ground transportation vehicles in aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, and thermodynamics, Relying on a number of key facilities such as the first professional vehicle wind tunnel center in China, which owning the aerodynamic acoustic wind tunnel, thermal environment vehicle wind tunnel and nearly 3000 nuclear high-performance computing clusters, integrating Tongji University's advantageous talent team in ground transportation, we seek breakthroughs in basic research and applied basic research in the four research directions of aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, thermodynamics, and numerical wind tunnels, Strive to achieve domestic leading and international advanced levels in the research system and research level. Four research directions in the laboratory:

Direction 1: Research on Aerodynamic Prediction and Control of Ground Transportation Vehicles

1) Research on the prediction of aerodynamic flow in ground transportation vehicles, seeking breakthroughs in basic theories and prediction methods of aerodynamics;

2) Based on the new idea of combining aerodynamics and styling design, carry out research on new technologies and methods for aerodynamic design of transportation vehicles, and explore the organic unity of aerodynamics and styling design;

3) Conduct research on aerodynamic optimization control methods in the key technologies of drag reduction design and driving stability, with the aim of safety, comfort, energy conservation and environmental protection.

Direction 2: Research on Aeroacoustic Prediction and Control of Ground Transportation Vehicles

1) Develop basic aeroacoustic theories and analysis methods, and study effective aeroacoustic prediction methods;

2) Develop aerodynamic noise optimization control techniques and methods with the goal of low aerodynamic noise;

3) By organically combining aerodynamics, styling design, and low aerodynamic noise, we will conduct research on new technologies and methods that meet the requirements of these three aspects.

Direction 3: Research on Thermal Management and Thermal Comfort of Ground Transportation Vehicles

1) Develop fundamental scientific issues in the thermodynamics of ground transportation, and form methods and technological breakthroughs in complex flow, multiphase turbulent heat transfer, and comprehensive energy reuse;

2) From the perspectives of aerodynamics and thermodynamics, study the optimal layout of thermal management systems for ground transportation vehicles, as well as the reasonable distribution of internal flow fields and their impact on heat transfer;

3) Research on evaluation methods and control of thermal comfort of ground transportation vehicles.

Direction 4: Research on Advanced Numerical Methods and Intelligent Algorithms for Ground Transportation Vehicles

1) High efficiency computing theory and autonomous core algorithms, promoting breakthroughs in the development of autonomous software for ground transportation vehicles;

2) New numerical calculation methods and intelligent algorithms that can be applied to ground transportation vehicles.