Advances in Integrated Vehicle Thermal Management and Numerical Simulation

Yan Wang, Qing Gao, Tianshi Zhang, Guohua Wang, Zhipeng Jiang and Yunxia Li
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Yan Wang: State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
Qing Gao: State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
Tianshi Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
Guohua Wang: State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
Zhipeng Jiang: State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
Yunxia Li: China FAW Co., Ltd. R&D Center, Changchun 130025, China

Energies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-30

Abstract: With the increasing demands for vehicle dynamic performance, economy, safety and comfort, and with ever stricter laws concerning energy conservation and emissions, vehicle power systems are becoming much more complex. To pursue high efficiency and light weight in automobile design, the power system and its vehicle integrated thermal management (VITM) system have attracted widespread attention as the major components of modern vehicle technology. Regarding the internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV), its integrated thermal management (ITM) mainly contains internal combustion engine (ICE) cooling, turbo-charged cooling, exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooling, lubrication cooling and air conditioning (AC) or heat pump (HP). As for electric vehicles (EVs), the ITM mainly includes battery cooling/preheating, electric machines (EM) cooling and AC or HP. With the rational effective and comprehensive control over the mentioned dynamic devices and thermal components, the modern VITM can realize collaborative optimization of multiple thermodynamic processes from the aspect of system integration. Furthermore, the computer-aided calculation and numerical simulation have been the significant design methods, especially for complex VITM. The 1D programming can correlate multi-thermal components and the 3D simulating can develop structuralized and modularized design. Additionally, co-simulations can virtualize simulation of various thermo-hydraulic behaviors under the vehicle transient operational conditions. This article reviews relevant researching work and current advances in the ever broadening field of modern vehicle thermal management (VTM). Based on the systematic summaries of the design methods and applications of ITM, future tasks and proposals are presented. This article aims to promote innovation of ITM, strengthen the precise control and the performance predictable ability, furthermore, to enhance the level of research and development (R&D).

Keywords: vehicle power system; vehicle integrated thermal management; multiple thermodynamic processes; numerical simulation; researching work; current advances (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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