Determination of HVAC air distribution within a passenger vehicle cabin

The aim of this bachelor´s thesis is to determine proportional coefficients of air distribution provided by heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system (HVAC) within a passenger vehicle cabin. The focus of this paper is to determine air flow rates from the outlets at predefined outside climatic conditions (ambient temperature and solar load). The simulation of outside climatic conditions was executed by placing the car into a climatic chamber. The air flow rates from outlets were determined by measuring air flow velocity method, specifically by determining mean value of air flow velocity profile and area of outlet crosssection. Hot-wire anemometry was used for air flow velocity measurement. The results of this experimental work are presented in a diagrammatic form and will serve as a groundwork for boundary condition setting for computer modeling of thermal load and thermal comfort within a vehicular cabin