Abstract: Abstract The present study numerically investigated thermal comfort in a passenger compartment by considering the spectral solar radiation. With the use of commercial software (ANSYS Fluent V. 13.0) in which the solar load model is embedded, a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics simulation was conducted to accurately predict thermal and flow fields under the operating conditions of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system. This study compared the Fanger model and the equivalent temperature model for thermal comfort analysi...
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Mechanics
Simulation
Meteorology