This paper describes an analytical method developed to aid the project of vehicles, aiming to obtain a good performance of the engine cooling system, air-conditioning and thermal behavior of components that are exposed to severe operating conditions. A commercial code of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) is used as the analysis tool to solve the flow through the underhood by the finite-volume method. The methodology is presented with an application for a passenger car, comparing the results obtained by the simulation with experimental data.


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    Title :

    Underhood Airflow Simulation of a Passenger Car Using Computational Fluid Dynamics


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Mobility Technology Conference and Exhibit ; 2001



    Publication date :

    2001-03-05




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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