Skip to main content
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
Speaker Bio:
Deniz Hinz, PH.D. is a Senior Thermal and CFD Engineer at ThermoAnalytics Inc., where he leads the development and validation of advanced cabin simulation methodologies. Deniz specializes in coupling 1D and 3D solvers with human thermal comfort modeling to create integrated multiphysics simulation workflows for cabin environments. Recognized for his meticulous approach and innovative problem solving, he delivers solutions that are both highly accurate and tailored to client-specific needs. Deniz holds a BSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology, where his research centered on CFD model development and validation for complex, multiphase flows.