Performance Analysis Of Airflow, Temperature And Comfort Inside The Passenger Car

Authors: I. Shamim, Rakhab C. Mehta,
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1.1 OVERVIEW In numerous countries of the world, the cooling systems have been utilized generally and its motivation is to provide thermal comfort and satisfactory IAQ for occupants. While the way of life improves with the increasingly agreeable and empowering indoor condition are required by the travellers. Individuals regularly invest more energy inside and the indoor condition has effects on working proficiency and human health. These have become an important part of vehicles of major categories worldwide. Most of the vehicles in the market are fixed with an AC system. Automobile manufactures clearly focus on AC systems supporting for all kinds of climates as due to the technology advances, AC system is also adhering major progressions. The focus now is on to the improvement of cabin comfort with minimum energy input. Manufactures of vehicles are making efforts to improve the efficiency of AC systems because vehicles in day to day life become an indispensable part where people spend hours each day in vehicles.

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I. Shamim

Shamim I received his M-tech degree in Industrial Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering from TKM College of Engineering, Kerala and Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering from Noorul Islam Centre for higher education, Tamil Nadu. He has 15 years of teaching experience and worked as Consultant for various Automotive firms. He taught various subjects like Engineering Graphics, machine drawing, CAD, Automobile Engineering, Fluid mechanics etc. for the past 15 years. He contributed a lot towards the restoration of passenger cars and done his research in optimizing the air flow temperature and comfort inside the budgetary vehicles. Vital role in conducting innovative studies in online education especially in engineering domain. He is the founder of Teczfab Online Education Foundation which provides a digital learning platform 'tecZfab' for engineering courses. Presently he is working as professor and Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Baselios Mathews II College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala, India.

Rakhab C. Mehta

R. C. Mehta received his M.S. and Ph. D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He was former Head of Aerodynamics Division of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre/Indian Space Research Organization. He has actively involved in design and development of satellite launch vehicle and reentry capsule. His research area includes CFD, jet propulsion, MPD, applied inverse heat conduction problem and depressurization system. He has published over 120 papers in national and international journal. He has published six chapters and co-authored of two books. He is reviewer for many international journals and received certificate of outstanding contribution in reviewing from Aerospace Science and Technology (Elsevier) and certificate of reviewing from Alexandra Engineering Journal (Elsevier). He has served as Senior Fellow in School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has recipient of the Life Time Achievement award from the Flow Physics Society of India. He is a senior member of AIAA. Presently dean in Faculty of Aeronautical and Space Technology, Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kumaracoil, Tamil Nadu India