Abstract
For car production, useful method to predict the thermal comfort and cooling load for car cabin is strongly required today. The purpose of this study is to develop suitable simulation system. A subjective experiment was conducted in winter to acquire the data for simulation. In the experiment, The temperatures of inner surface, outer surface, room air of a compact truck, and other climatic conditions were recorded. In the simulation, thermal network calculating program, NETS was used. NETS was updated for car simulation. The climatic conditions were input in NETS and the results of the calculation were compared with the results of the experiment. Both results accorded generally together. This result suggests that thermal network modeling could be useful method to predict thermal condition of car cabin.
