Towards Understanding Water Ingestion into Vehicle HVAC System- PIV Validation of a CFD Simulation
2001-01-1752
05/14/2001
- Event
- Content
- 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.
- Pages
- 10
- 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.