Abstract
The thermal characteristic of automobile air conditions is very important to improve comfort. The efficient heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems for automotive applications have determined a great impulse in the research to predict the thermal performance. Limitations of the measurement data and reduction in design cycles have driven the demand for numerical simulation. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an effective technology by providing valuable data which experimental methods cannot measure. This chapter presents the basic numerical theory and method of CFD for heat transfer in passenger compartment.
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Sun, T., Jiang, Q., Wang, P. (2016). CFD-Based Modeling of Heat Transfer in a Passenger Compartment. In: Automotive Air Conditioning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33590-2_1
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