Publication detail

Virtual Testing Stand for evaluation of car cabin indoor environment

POKORNÝ, J. FIŠER, J. JÍCHA, M.

Original Title

Virtual Testing Stand for evaluation of car cabin indoor environment

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

In the paper the authors refer to a new computational tool for the transient prediction of the car cabin environment and heat load during real operating conditions. The aim of the Virtual Testing Stand software is to support an early stage of the HVAC design process to predict demands for the heating and cooling for various operational conditions and types of car. This software was developed in Matlab as a standalone executable application including a parametric generator of car cabin geometry, a heat transfer model and a graphical user interface. The mathematical model is formed by the set of heat balance equations, which takes into account the heat accumulation, and the heat exchange between the car cabin, the outside environment, the HVAC system and the passengers. In this paper the main features of Matlab application are presented together with a selected sensitivity study of two significant parameters in a winter test case.

Keywords

Car cabin, Indoor environment, Matlab, Thermal comfort, HVAC design, Computational tool

Authors

POKORNÝ, J.; FIŠER, J.; JÍCHA, M.

RIV year

2014

Released

27. 6. 2014

Publisher

Elsevier

Location

Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

ISBN

0965-9978

Periodical

ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING SOFTWARE

Year of study

2014

Number

76

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

48

Pages to

55

Pages count

7

BibTex

@article{BUT108172,
  author="Jan {Pokorný} and Jan {Fišer} and Miroslav {Jícha}",
  title="Virtual Testing Stand for evaluation of car cabin indoor environment",
  journal="ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING SOFTWARE",
  year="2014",
  volume="2014",
  number="76",
  pages="48--55",
  doi="10.1016/j.advengsoft.2014.06.002",
  issn="0965-9978"
}