Numerical Simulation of the Transient Thermal Load of a Sightseeing Airship Cockpit

Li, Xiaoyang and Lin, Xiaohui and Xu, Changyue and Li, Zhuopei (2024) Numerical Simulation of the Transient Thermal Load of a Sightseeing Airship Cockpit. Aerospace, 11 (2). p. 127. ISSN 2226-4310

[thumbnail of aerospace-11-00127-v2.pdf] Text
aerospace-11-00127-v2.pdf - Published Version

Download (18MB)

Abstract

The calculation of a cockpit’s transient thermal load is important for determining the capacity of the cockpit environmental control system, ensuring the safety of electronic equipment and increasing the health and comfort of cockpit occupants. According to the structural parameters of the cockpit of a sightseeing airship, a physical model is established. The turbulence model and calculation method are selected and verified. The transient thermal load within full flight envelope, the cockpit thermal loads at different times of the day, and the cockpit thermal loads under different free-flow velocities are obtained based on the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method. The cockpit transient thermal loads during different seasons are also obtained. The results show that solar radiation has a great influence on the cockpit transient thermal load. As the flight altitude increases, the thermal load decreases from 8.8 kW (H = 0 m) to 4.7 kW (H = 3000 m). With the change in the solar radiation intensity and solar radiation angle, the thermal load increases considerably, from 2.2 kW (8:00 a.m.) to 5.4 kW (12:00 a.m.). The influence of the free-flow velocity is not very obvious at an altitude of 3000 m, as discussed in this study. The influence of seasons is significant. Finally, the influence of the solar absorptivity and infrared emissivity of the cockpit surface material are studied, and the temperature distribution on the cockpit’s surface is determined.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: EP Archives > Multidisciplinary
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 01 Feb 2024 05:47
Last Modified: 01 Feb 2024 05:47
URI: http://research.send4journal.com/id/eprint/3709

Actions (login required)

View Item
View Item