Numerical Simulation of Heat Flow in a Vehicle Cabin Using the Personal Air Conditioning System

Abstract:

The personal air conditioning system is used in the battery electric vehicle instead of the traditional one and the experiment validated that this system can make passengers feel comfort after four minutes. All the system can only consume electric power 338.8 W, which is less than the traditional air conditioning of cabin. A simplified 3-D N box vehicle cabin model was created to simulate the thermal distribution under this system by using the CFD analysis and the results of calculation have good agreement with the experiment recording.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 694-697)
• Pages: 755-761
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.694-697.755
• Online since: May 2013
• Authors: Yang Zeng, Masafumi Katsuta, Tomohiro Anamizu
• Keywords: Energy Saving, Numerical Simulation, Personal Air Conditioning, Temperature Comfort, Vehicle Cabin

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