Numerical simulation on the influence of solar incidence angle on the car internal flow field

Author

Yang, Yi ; Yuqi, Yin

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Design & Manuf. for Vehicle Body, Hunan Univ., Changsha, China

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 April 2011

Firstpage

5143

Lastpage

5146

Abstract

This paper simulates and analyzes non-uniform thermal environment in the cabin by means of CFD. The RNG k - ε turbulent model is chosen, and the Discrete Ordinates radiation model is used to calculate the thermal radiation of the cabin. This paper analyses the influence of three different solar incidence angles on the thermal comfort of car occupants. A reference for the optimal research of the evaluation of indoor comfortable environment is given.

Keywords

Navier-Stokes equations; automobiles; computational fluid dynamics; flow simulation; heat radiation; numerical analysis; turbulence; CFD; RNG k-ε turbulent model; car internal flow field; car occupants; discrete ordinate radiation model; indoor comfortable environment; nonuniform thermal environment; numerical simulation; solar incidence angles; thermal comfort; thermal radiation; Computational fluid dynamics; Manufacturing; Numerical models; Numerical simulation; Presses; Thermal analysis; CFD; Incidence angle; Internal flow field; Numerical simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Information and Control Engineering (ICEICE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8036-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEICE.2011.5776963

Filename

5776963