This document summarizes a study on simulating the thermal performance of a vehicle disc brake over multiple stops using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Key findings include:
1) Using 6 CFD cases to characterize airflow and importing convection coefficients into a thermal model for each stop provided realistic temperatures with less computational expense than fully coupling multiple transient CFD simulations.
2) Choosing an appropriate reference temperature for convection coefficients is important, as using ambient temperature did not capture heating of all parts like the caliper.
3) The reference temperature approach produced similar results to a local temperature coupling with less variation in temperature around the rotor, at a fraction of the computational cost.
This document summarizes a study on simulating the thermal performance of a vehicle disc brake over multiple stops using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Key findings include:
1) Using 6 CFD cases to characterize airflow and importing convection coefficients into a thermal model for each stop provided realistic temperatures with less computational expense than fully coupling multiple transient CFD simulations.
2) Choosing an appropriate reference temperature for convection coefficients is important, as using ambient temperature did not capture heating of all parts like the caliper.
3) The reference temperature approach produced similar results to a local temperature coupling with less variation in temperature around the rotor, at a fraction of the computational cost.
This document summarizes a study on simulating the thermal performance of a vehicle disc brake over multiple stops using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Key findings include:
1) Using 6 CFD cases to characterize airflow and importing convection coefficients into a thermal model for each stop provided realistic temperatures with less computational expense than fully coupling multiple transient CFD simulations.
2) Choosing an appropriate reference temperature for convection coefficients is important, as using ambient temperature did not capture heating of all parts like the caliper.
3) The reference temperature approach produced similar results to a local temperature coupling with less variation in temperature around the rotor, at a fraction of the computational cost.