Open AccessImproving Thermal Comfort in Aircraft Cockpit Based on Optimization of Supply Air Grille
Author(s) -
Xianglong Hu,
Liu Yu-di
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/769/4/042059
Subject(s) - cockpit , computational fluid dynamics , thermal comfort , environmental science , thermal , air temperature , airflow , field (mathematics) , aerospace engineering , automotive engineering , simulation , aeronautics , engineering , marine engineering , mechanical engineering , meteorology , physics , mathematics , pure mathematics
Pilot’s thermal comfort and performance are directly affected by air flow field and temperature field in cockpit. A three-dimensional cockpit model of a certain civil aircraft is established, and the distribution of air velocity and temperature is obtained with the method of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Aiming at the problems of high local air speed and uneven temperature distribution in the cockpit, two new supply air grilles are proposed. The results show that one of the grilles can obviously optimize air flow field and temperature in the cockpit and improve the thermal comfort of the pilots.