THREE-DIMENSIONAL NAVIER-STOKES SIMULATION FOR PASSENGER COMPARTMENT COOLING

The reynolds-averaged navier-stokes equations, together with the transport of energy equation, were solved in a time-dependent form to simulate passenger compartment cooling. The effect of air density variation due to temperature was included as a buoyant force term in the analysis through a boussinesq approximation. These transport equations were discretized, based on a finite volume method in a transformed domain. A general-body fitted curvilinear co-ordinate system was used to model interior geometries in the passenger compartment. The computational results for a j-car passenger compartment cooling showed overall flow information such as the propagation of cold air fronts, turbulent jet penetration and mixing, and buoyance-induced recirculating flows. Comparison of the available experimental data with predictions using isothermal wall boundary conditions showed excellent agreement in the prediction of the front breath-level temperature. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • Han, Taeyoung
• Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 175-186
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Vehicle Design
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Limited
  • ISSN: 1477-5360
  • Serial URL: http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Comfort; Cooling; Finite element method; Forecasting; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Passengers; Simulation; Temperature; Variables; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Interior
• ITRD Terms: 6471: Analysis (math); 9138: Comfort; 6711: Cooling (mater); 6490: Finite element method; 132: Forecast; 1377: Interior (veh); 6473: Mathematical model; 9103: Simulation; 6722: Temperature; 9086: Variability; 1715: Vehicle occupant
• Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00491671
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 31 1990 12:00AM