Cooling Performance Analysis for Mobile Vehicles by Thermal Resistance Network

Abstract

This paper used CFD software to simulate the cooling situation of the engine space of a mobile vehicle. In particular, we used a thermal resistance network diagram to calculate the heat flux at each position of the power system. The CFD simulation results are discussed in Section 3 of this paper: the error between the simulation results and the experiment was 10.07 %. Noteworthily, the thermal resistance network diagram proposed in this paper can reduce the time for numerical simulation by evaluating the heat flux at each position of the power system.