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Thursday, March 27, 2025 | 9:00-10:00AM EDT
Ensuring clear windshield and side window visibility in cold weather is a critical aspect of vehicle development. Traditional wind tunnel and cold chamber testing can be costly and time-intensive, making simulation a powerful alternative for validating defrost performance, as well as refining designs early in the development process.
In this webinar, we will showcase how TAITherm enables engineers to accurately simulate the phase change process and validate defrost performance, while also ensuring compliance with safety regulations. We will demonstrate how to integrate 1D HVAC models with 3D thermal/CFD simulations to assess the combined effects of airflow, glazing materials, and heating elements. Attendees will gain insights into extracting key performance metrics and leveraging various simulation workflows—from high-fidelity analyses to accelerated methodologies for rapid design studies.
Key Highlights and Takeaways:
- Three-tool coupling for an accurate defrost solution
- Validating physical test requirements using TAITherm to extract key performance metrics required to validate the physical test requirements
- Demonstrating how RapidFlow can enable rapid design studies, with a good tradeoff between computational time and accuracy
Who should attend:
- Thermal, HVAC, CFD, and simulation engineers – Looking to improve defrost system design and evaluate airflow, heating, and glazing interactions through simulation. Performing defrost performance validation simulations as part of a vehicle development program.
- Automotive OEMs & Suppliers – Developing defrost solutions / interested in design studies
- Researchers – Developing simulation and validation methods