Towards Understanding Water Ingestion into Vehicle HVAC System- PIV Validation of a CFD Simulation 2001-01-1752
The analysis of airflow in an automotive HVAC cowl box is complicated by the cross sectional variations and abrupt changes in airflow direction. In this study, the complex three-dimensional turbulent flow found in a generic road vehicle cowl box is investigated experimentally and computationally. An optical anemometer is used to acquire the experimental data within a white metal sheet of a cowl box. The results are then used to validate and tune a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) numerical cowl model.
Citation: Ghani, S., Aroussi, A., and Rice, E., "Towards Understanding Water Ingestion into Vehicle HVAC System- PIV Validation of a CFD Simulation," SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-1752, 2001, https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-1752. Download Citation
Author(s):
S. A. A. Abdul Ghani, A. Aroussi, E. Rice
Affiliated:
The University of Nottingham, Flow Diagnostics Laboratory, Visteon Automotive Systems
Pages: 10
Event:
Vehicle Thermal Management Systems Conference & Exposition
Also in:
Proceedings of the 2001 Vehicle Thermal Management Systems Conference-P-363
