Calculation of Coach Body Heat Transfer Coefficient for the High-Speed Railway Train in China

Abstract

The coach body of the high-speed railway train is required to have a good thermal insulation performance. It can keep a comfort passenger environment and decrease demand for the cooling load of air-conditioning system. The determination of coach body heat transfer coefficient (K-value) is critical for the efficient design of vehicle air-conditioning system. A heat transfer coefficient calculation model is especially proposed for the typical aluminum section thermal insulating wall structure of high-speed trains coach body in china, on the basis of the fin heat transfer mechanism. For the train type of CRH3G, the calculating coach body heat transfer coefficient is in good agreement with the experimental value. So the proposed calculation method can significantly improve the computational efficiency of the K-value for the high-speed railway trains which have the typical aluminum section insulation wall structures, and provide a trustable basis for the coach body structure optimization design.