CFD Analysis and Validation of an Automotive HVAC System

Measurement-based strategies for high-fidelity thermo-fluid dynamics simulation of an automotive heat exchanger

“…1) are given somehow (e.g., empirically), the porous media model is included in the RANS equations to simulate the interaction between the heat exchanger and the surrounding thermal flow field in a simple way. In fact, Okada et al (2000), Yano et al (2004), and Patidar et al (2009) applied the porous media models to the RANS-based CFD for HVAC units, and demonstrated drastic reduction in time for the HVAC product development. However, Okada et al (2000) and Yano et al (2004) also suggested that conventional CFD with globally fixed model parameters is still insufficient for good consistency with the actual measurements.…”

CFD Simulation of HAWT Blade and Implementation of BEM Theory

“…In today's dynamic engineering environment, CFD is a burgeoning tool and has a broad spectrum of usage in myriad engineering fields. From modeling turbulence [9,10], various chemical phenomena [11,12], HVAC systems [13,14] and all the way to the food industry [15,16] CFD has proven potential. The following are some of the studies related to current work.…”