Investigation of transient cooling of an automobile cabin with a virtual manikin under solar radiation

Thermal Science

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 397-406

  Sevilgen, Gokhan ^a   Kilic, Muhsin ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Automobile cabin; Computational fluid dynamics; Solar radiation; Transient cooling

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AUTOMOBILES; COOLING; RADIATION EFFECTS; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

AUTOMOBILE CABIN; BODY SURFACE; COOLING ANALYSIS; HUMAN BODIES; INTERIOR SURFACES; LOAD MODELING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SOLAR LOAD; SURFACE RADIATION MODELS; TRANSIENT COOLING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84881167850     PISSN: 03549836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/TSCI120623150S     Document Type: Article

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