Three dimensional numerical analysis of temperature distribution in an automobile cabin

Thermal Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 321-326

  Sevilgen, Gokhan ^a   Kilic, Muhsin ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Automobile cabin; Computational fluid dynamics; Virtual manikin

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

3-D NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; AUTOMOBILE CABIN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS METHODS; HEATING AND COOLING PERIODS; OUTER SURFACE; STEADY AND TRANSIENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL MANIKIN;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84868359402     PISSN: 03549836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/TSCI1201321S     Document Type: Article

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