[HTML][HTML] A regard on the thermal comfort theories from the standpoint of Electric Vehicle design—Review and perspectives

I Nastase, P Danca, F Bode, C Croitoru, L Fechete… - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
In the short and medium term, it is estimated that electric mobility will play an important role
in greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategy. However, vehicles with electric propulsion …

Improving electric vehicle range and thermal comfort through an innovative seat heating system

F Bode, NV Burnete, L Fechete Tutunaru, I Nastase - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the last decade, car manufactures invested a lot of effort to align their products to the latest
energy directives which encourage the production and usage of electrified vehicles to …

Assessment of thermal comfort parameters in various car models and mitigation strategies for extreme heat-health risks in the tropical climate

K Ravindra, N Agarwal, S Mor - Journal of Environmental Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Assessing the thermal comfort of the car in a hot and humid climate is crucial as it may have
adverse health implications. In the current study, different models of car were used to …

Human thermal sensation and its algorithmic modelization under dynamic environmental thermal characteristics of vehicle cabin

W Li, J Chen, F Lan, H Xie - Indoor air, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal conditions are strongly changeable in a vehicle cabin, where passengers could
suffer consecutive self‐thermoregulation to such dynamic changing thermal stresses, though …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental and numerical study of the flow dynamics and thermal behavior inside a car cabin: Innovative air diffusers and human body plumes interactions

P Dancă, A Jamin, I Nastase, B Janssens… - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
In confined spaces, such as vehicle cabins, airflow and temperature distribution are the most
critical factors affecting thermal comfort and pollutant dispersion. To develop innovative and …

Advanced thermal manikin for thermal comfort assessment in vehicles and buildings

DD Ion-Guţă, I Ursu, A Toader, D Enciu, PA Dancă… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Thermal comfort assessment in vehicles and buildings and other
transient thermal environ-ments. Abstract Among the factors that influence the resilience and …

Influence of the air diffusers on human thermal comfort inside vehicles–a review article

F Bode, A Jamin, GM Sirbu - IOP Conference Series: Earth and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The time spent by vehicle occupants in traffic has grown significantly in the last decades.
Improving the thermal comfort of the people inside vehicles has gained a lot of importance in …

Experimental investigation of thermal vehicular environment during the summer season

P Danca, F Bode, A Meslem, C Croitoru… - … and Technology for …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Thermal comfort evaluation for vehicle occupants is very complicated due to the transient
nature and non-uniformity of the vehicle interior. The thermal sensation of an automobile …

On the effectiveness of Reynolds-averaged and subgrid scale models in predicting flows inside car cabins

G Grossi, F Arpino, M Bertone, G Cortellessa… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The aim of the present study is to analyze the performances of unsteady Reynolds-averaged
Navier–Stokes (URANS) and large eddy simulation (LES) approaches in predicting the …

Toward intelligent car comfort sensing: New dataset and analysis of annotated physiological metrics

T Olugbade, Y Cho, Z Morgan… - 2021 9th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Comfort is a subjective experience that people attend to in everyday life including in cars
where they are constrained in movement. Could intelligent cars sense their comfort levels for …