Abstract
An experimental study on the dynamic thermal environment and front and rear occupants’ local thermal sensation of the vehicle cabin in automatic air conditioning mode under different driving states in summer is conducted. Experimental results show: air temperature, occupant skin temperature and local thermal sensation are all affected by crew position, body part and driving status. Driving increases the heat flux between the vehicle body and the air outside. Driving helps reduce body part differences and improves uniformity of front and rear cabin. Local thermal sensation and local skin temperature show a good linear relationship. But the linear correlation coefficient is affected by crew position, body part, driving state and air conditioning conditions. When the air conditioning system in vehicle cabin adopts the automatic mode, the local thermal sensation under different driving status of the same body part can be unified under the same one exponential function. And the static model is more suitable to describe local thermal sensation than the dynamic model, which means that only need to consider non-uniformity and ignore transient. Substituting the local skin temperature under driving condition into a static model fitted with idle condition can predict the body’s local thermal sensation well.
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