Setting Up a Thermal Comfort Case
This section outlines the process of setting up a passenger comfort case with the thermal comfort wizard.
The first step of a thermal comfort analysis is to define the simulation domain. In some scenarios, the symmetry of the respective vehicle allows you to reduce the size of the domain and the number of passengers to be modeled.
Commercial aircraft, for example, accommodate large numbers of passengers. To make the simulation efficient, take advantage of the symmetry and periodicity of the seating layout, the windows, the cooling ducts, and so on, and model just a section of the whole domain. For passenger vehicles, it seems that there is symmetry for the passengers, however the ducting and other geometric constraints of the passenger cabin are rarely symmetric. For passenger vehicles, you typically model all passengers of interest.
You use the wizard after having generated a mesh, selected models, and set up initial conditions and boundary conditions. The process involves the following: