CFD Simulation Analysis for the Wax-type Thermostat

DOI

10.2991/meic-14.2014.306How to use a DOI?

Keywords

thermostat; FLUENT; flow visualization; 3D model; simulation

Abstract

Thermostat is an important part of car cooling system. In this paper, with the fluid analysis software FLUENT, CFD simulation analysis was carried out on the two kinds of thermostat. The distributions of temperature, speed, pressure were obtained by simulation analysis of flow field of thermostat, and the internal fluid flow state and its change law of thermostat were obtained under different opening. One of thermostat with the warm wind pipe was simulated and implemented a simple optimization, finally. Through the simulation in the flow field of the thermostat at different opening, it could be obtained that the thermostat internal fluid flow state and its variation in different operating conditions. It had important significance on the thermostat working law prediction and the thermostat cooling system performance analysis. The state of the coolant through the thermostat inner was reflected clearly and intuitively by the visual graphics of flow field inside the thermostat with the CFD simulation analysis. The structure of the thermostat could be appropriately improved or optimized by the temperature, pressure, turbulent kinetic energy and other factors.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lang Bai
AU  - Mingshun Yang
AU  - Yan Li
PY  - 2014/11
DA  - 2014/11
TI  - CFD Simulation Analysis for the Wax-type Thermostat
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronic, Industrial and Control Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1357
EP  - 1361
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/meic-14.2014.306
DO  - 10.2991/meic-14.2014.306
ID  - Bai2014/11
ER  -