The paper describes a predictive tool for the determination of air and coolant temperatures and heat exchange resulting from the operation of heat exchangers, e.g., radiator or air-conditioner condenser in the underhood of automotive engines. The paper describes a detailed computational model where both the fluid streams are numerically solved and the phase change of the refrigerant is taken into account in a condenser simulation. An actual underhood simulation with interactions with a radiator is presented. A numerical simulation for a condenser is also presented. Reasonable agreement is shown with the test data.
Numerical Methodology for Automotive Radiator and Condenser Simulations
Sae Technical Papers
1995 Vehicle Thermal Management Systems Conference and Exhibition ; 1995
1997-05-19
Conference paper
English
Numerical Methodology for Automotive Radiator and Condenser Simulations
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
|Numerical methodology for automotive radiator and condenser simulations
Automotive engineering | 1997
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