UNDERHOOD THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRIC TRACTOR
2022-01-0196
03/29/2022
- Event
- Content
- The global issues of energy crisis and air pollution have offered a great opportunity to develop electric vehicles. This study investigates the underhood thermal management of the newly introduced electric tractor, with the target of managing the heat generated out from the major heat contributing sources. The alignment of the fan with some design modification has been made on the basis of CFD simulation. For this work, a Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) method utilizing the k-Ɛ turbulence model have been implemented in the commercial CFD software STAR-CCM+. The results show that the existing design configuration was not effective enough to handle the cooling requirement of the tractor. The angular orientation of the fan along with a baffle design capable enough to redirect the air in to the desired locations made it possible to achieve the desired cooling even in hot summer days. The closure of the side grills along with the aforementioned baffle modification made us to achieve a total temperature reduction of 14.30 %.
- Citation
- Babu, R., Kumar, V., Salve, N., and Kumar, N., "UNDERHOOD THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRIC TRACTOR ," SAE Technical Paper 2022-01-0196, 2022, .