A real time numerical analysis of vehicle cool （车辆的实时数值分析酷）.pdfVIP

A real time numerical analysis of vehicle cool-down performance S HONG ROK Hyundai Motor Company, Korea H PASTOHR P+Z Engineering, Germany ABSTRACT The cool-down performance of a passenger vehicle is affected by several components for instance the air-conditioning system itself, engine compartment and environmental thermal conditions. Therefore sufficient information is required at very early stage of design to ensure sufficient air conditioning performance for the passengers. In this study a robust numerical method for estimating vehicle cool-down performance developed recently is introduced. A full air-conditioning system was simulated by a commercial 1- D thermohydraulic analysis code, FLOWMASTER. Heat flux including solar radiation through the car structure was estimated by CFD simulation, using STARCD and a 3-D heat transfer program, THESEUS_FE v1.0. These programs were coupled together like a real air-conditioning system which shares boundaries between different systems. All thermal conditions were defined exactly with a Climate Wind Tunnel (CWT) used for developing a real car. It was found that this method provided results very similar to the test results during the entire simulation process. 1 INTRODUCTION Since 1928 when refrigerant R-12 was introduced air-conditioning (AC) systems have been installed in almost all passenger cars Passenger comfort is becoming a very important sales issue since vehicle supply ratio has increased and people spend more time on the road. The greatly increasing consumption of refrigerant R-12, R-134 and fossil fuel began to effect ozone depletion and global warming. Therefore, global organizations like EC/EPA/CARB are trying to control refrigerant leak and fuel consumption by enforcing tight regulations and laws and by creating increasing pressure on ve