en موتور احتراق داخلی Internal Combustion Engines (ICE, ...) پژوهشي Research <p class="Abstract" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="2"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">Due to the increasing development in various branches of the automotive industry, the need for a comfort climate in the cabin is more sensible. However, to achieve climate comfort, HVAC system consumes a considerable amount of engine power. Hence, improving HVAC system performance leads to more energy saving of the vehicle which is a critical factor for nowadays automotive. Besides, one crucial task of HVAC system is defrosting/defogging of windshield which is considered as a mandatory requirement in most countries. In the current study, the defrosting/defogging performance of HVAC system in the main product of national vehicle platform is numerically evaluated based on the ECE-78-715 legal requirement. For this purpose, after validation and mesh independency study, the transient air flow in three-dimensional cabin geometry is simulated by SSTk-&omega; turbulence model via ANSYS Fluent software and the windshield thermal condition is reported during defrosting/defogging. Besides, two national HVAC standards of AERC-10-01 and AERC-10-02 are also checked. The results demonstrate that HVAC system of the main product of the national vehicle platform can satisfactorily fulfill ECE-78-715, AERC-10-01 and AERC-10-02.</font></font></font></p> defrosting/defogging performance, HVAC system, numerical evaluation, main product of the national vehicle platform, ECE-78-715 2006 2016 http://ase.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-63-108&slc_lang=en&sid=1 M.H. Shojaeefard 180031947532846001419 180031947532846001419 Yes G.R. Molaeimanesh 180031947532846001420 180031947532846001420 No N. Aghamirzaei 180031947532846001421 180031947532846001421 No S. Ghezelbiglo 180031947532846001422 180031947532846001422 No B. Zeinolabedini 180031947532846001423 180031947532846001423 No