Thermal Management of Vehicles (FSI-QTE)

Academic year 2021/2022
Supervisor: doc. Ing. Bc. Jan Fišer, Ph.D.  
Supervising institute: EÚ all courses guaranted by this institute
Teaching language: Czech
Aims of the course unit:
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with current trends in the automotive heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems and powertrain cooling including thermal managment of electric vehicles, accumulators and other infrastructures necesarry for charging and fast charging.
Learning outcomes and competences:
The course will provide students with the knowledge of heat transfer and apply it to problems of cooling of the combustion engine and the treatment of the indoor climate in the cabs of vehicles.
Prerequisites:
Thermodynamics, basic computer skills.
Course contents:
The course Thermal Management of Vehicles acquaints students with the theoretical basis of heat transfer, which are then applied to the issue of automotive powertrain cooling and to the systems of thermal comfort of vehicle cabins.
Teaching methods and criteria:
The course is taught through lectures that provide the explanation of the basic theoretical knowledge of heat transfer, powertrain cooling and devices to adjust the indoor climate in the cabins of automobiles. Teaching is complemented by laboratory assignments and computational exercises.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes:
Attendance at seminars and laboratory measurements. Overall evaluation of the course will be based on written exam, focusing on the application of lessons learned.
Controlled participation in lessons:
Attendance at seminars is compulsory. Absence at seminars and replacing them is solved individually with a teacher.
Type of course unit:
    Lecture  13 × 2 hrs. optionally                  
    Exercise  13 × 1 hrs. compulsory                  
Course curriculum:
    Lecture 1. Thermal management of cars - Introduction.
2. Heat transfer - Conduction.
3. Heat transfer - Unsteady conduction.
4. Heat transfer - Fins.
5. Heat exchangers - design methods.
6. Heat exchangers construction.
7. Heat resources and thermal management in the engine compartment.
8. Thermal managment of EV vehicles and charging infrsatructure.
9. Cabin, thermal comfort and services provided by HVAC systems.
10. The rating of thermal comfort in the cabins of automobiles.
11. Challenges in the field of automotive HVAC - classic cars, EV cars.
12. Cooling cycles - principles of operation
13. Cooling cycles - design of automotive air conditioning
    Exercise 1. - 2. Thermal balance of Combustion engine.
3. - 4. Determination of the heat transfer coefficient.
5. - 6. Experiment - IR camera in thermal management.
7. - 8. Experiment - cabin heat up, evaluation of thermal comfort.
9. - 10. Experiment - defrost of windshield.
11. - 13. Experiment - efficiency of refrigeration unit.
Literature - fundamental:
1. DALY, Steven. Automotive air-conditioning and climate control systems. 1st ed. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 2006, 362 s. ISBN 0-7506-6955-1.
2. INCROPERA, F. P., DEWITT, D. P., BERGMAN T. L., LAVINE, A. S. Principles of heat and mass transfer. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2017, 1000 s., ISBN: 9781119382911.
Literature - recommended:
1. VAN BASSHUYSEN, Richard a Fred SCHÄFER. Internal combustion engine handbook: basics, components, systems, and perspectives. Warrendale, Pa.: SAE International, c2004, xxxix, 811 p., ISBN 07-680-1139-6.
2. NILSSON, H. O. Comfort Climate Evaluation with Thermal Manikin Methods and Computer Simulation Models. University of Gävle, 2004, 202 s., ISBN 91-7283-693-8.
The study programmes with the given course:
Programme Study form Branch Spec. Final classification   Course-unit credits     Obligation     Level     Year     Semester  
N-ADI-P full-time study --- no specialisation -- Cr,Ex 4 Compulsory-optional 2 2 S