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PIV Measurement and Numerical Simulation of Airflow Field in a Road Vehicle HVAC Cowl Box
Technical Paper
2001-01-0294
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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SAE 2001 World Congress
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English
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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.
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Aroussi, A., Abdul Ghani, S., and Rice, E., "PIV Measurement and Numerical Simulation of Airflow Field in a Road Vehicle HVAC Cowl Box," SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-0294, 2001, https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-0294.Also In
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