TY - JOUR
TI - An approach to the modeling of a virtual thermal manikin
AU - Ružić Dragan A
AU - Bikić Siniša M
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2014
VL - 18
IS - 4
SP - 1413
EP - 1423
PT - Article
AB - The aim of the research described in this paper, is to make a virtual thermal  manikin that would be simple, but also robust and reliable. The virtual  thermal manikin was made in order to investigate thermal conditions inside  vehicle cabins. The main parameters of the presented numerical model that  were investigated in this paper are mesh characteristics and turbulence  models. Heat fluxes on the manikin's body segments obtained from the  simulations were compared with published results, from three different  experiments done on physical thermal manikins. The presented virtual thermal  manikin, meshed with surface elements of 0.035 m in nominal size (around  13,600 surface elements) and in conjunction with the two-layer RANS  Realizable k-ε turbulence model, had generally good agreement with  experimental data in both forced and natural flow conditions.