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Thermal Analysis of the Car Seat due to the
Arrangement of Hot Wire
Jae Ung Cho1
1Division of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Kongju National University, 1223-24,
Cheonan Daero, Seobuk-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungnam of Korea 31080, [email protected]
Abstract. Various types of car seats are selling in the market and their levels of
heat transfer differ according to the arrangement and form of inner hot wires.
To find out the change due to the difference of arrangement, we conducted a
thermal analysis by arranging the hot wires in different ways, while at the same
time retaining the distance between the hot wire and the car seat. As a result,
data related to temperature distribution and heat flux after 60 seconds was
attained. In this analysis, models using the CATIA program were made and
thermal analysis using the ANSYS program was conducted.
Keywords: Arrangement of hot wires, Car seat, Thermal analysis, Temperature
distribution, Heat flux, Analysis of normal state, Transition analysis
1 Introduction
In this research, we will analyze temperature distribution and heat flux of car seats
according to different arrangement of hot wires. We also measure changes in
temperature distribution and heat flux after 60 seconds of extreme conditions to verify
the safety. We verify the credibility of our research by comparing and revising results
of three different arrangements of hot wires. The model used in the analysis is the
CATIA version and the analysis was conducted under the ANSYS version. We hope
that our research results can be applied to the arrangement of hot wires and prevent
various types of safety accidents. And these results make it useful for investigating
and predicting the efficiency of hot wires in car seats[1-5].
2 Model and Analysis
2.1 Research Model
We referred to the shape of actual seats and used CATIA to shape the model, and
analyzed the model using ANSYS. The shapes of meshes are presented as Fig. 1(a),
Fig. 1(b) and Fig. 1(c).
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(a) Model 1 (b) Model 2 (c) model 3
Fig. 1. Mesh of models.
2.2 Thermal Analysis
To analyze the temperature change and heat flux when a specific level of temperature
is set to the hot wires, we made the following settings. The restriction of Fig. 2 is the
convection current to the outer layer of the seat and the temperature of the outside of
entire heat lay is set at 60℃.
(a) Model 1 (b) Model 2 (c) Model 3
Fig. 2. Convection conditions of models.
Fig. 3(a),(b),(c) are the conditions of the normal initial state and show the
temperature distributions of the disc plate at the initial stage. The temperature
distributions are shown from 52.74 to 60.387℃, from 52.65 to 60.354℃, and from
50.254 to 60.682℃ at Fig. 3(a), Fig. 3(b) and Fig. 3(c) respectively.
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Also, Fig. 4(a),(b),(c) show the distributions of heat flux of the normal initial state.
Around the outer edge of the seat where passengers' bottoms are in touch with, Fig.
4(a), Fig. 4(b) and Fig. 4(c) indicate 0.0066153 W/㎟, 0.0067878 W/㎟ and
0.0080401 W/㎟ respectively.
(a) Model 1 (b) Model 2 (c) Model 3
Fig. 3. Contour of temperature at initial state.
(a) Model 1 (b) Model 2 (c) Model 3
Fig. 4. Contour of total heat flux at initial state.
Fig. 5(a),(b),(c) are stages of transition, showing the heat distribution of the seat's
outer layer after 60s. The temperatures of the seat's outer layers are 52.738~59.641℃
in Fig. 5(a), 52.649~59.638℃ in Fig. 5(b), and 50.254~ 59.566℃ in Fig. 5(c). Fig.
6(a),(b),(c) are also stages of transition, showing the heat flux of the seat's outer layer
after 60s. The heat fluxes around the edge of the outer layer (where passengers'
bottoms are in touch with) are 0.0036263 W/㎟ for Fig. 6(a), 0.0036598 W/㎟, for
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Fig. 6(b), and 0.003875 W/㎟ for Fig. 6(c). In comparison of the initial stage and the
state after 60 seconds, the temperature of car seat is more widely spread in model 1
than in models 2 and 3, although the difference is minimal. On the other hand, heat
flux of model 3 has decreased more than that of models 1 and 2, thereby proving more
stability. We have concluded that the optimum arrangement of hot wires in car seats
can be found with these results.
(a) Model 1 (b) Model 2 (c) Model 3
Fig. 5. Contour of temperature at transient state(elapsed time of 60sec).
(a) Model 1 (b) Model 2 (c) Model 3
Fig. 6. Contour of total heat flux at transient state(elapsed time of 60sec).
3 Conclusion
The conclusions induced from this research by analyzing the relationship between
temperature and heat flux of three models with different arrangements of car seats are
as follows:
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(1) At normal initial states, the temperature distribution of outer layer of car seats is
from 52.74 to 60.387℃ in model 1, from 52.65 to 60.354℃ in model 2, and from
50.254 to 60.682℃ in model 3. The maximum level of heat flux around the edge of
the outer layer is 0.0066153 W/㎟ for model 1, 0.0067878 W/㎟ for model 2, and
0.0080401 W/㎟ for model 3.
(2) In comparison of the initial stage and the state after 60 seconds, the temperature of
car seat is more widely spread in model 1 than in models 2 and 3, although the
difference is minimal. On the other hand, heat flux of model 3 has decreased more
than that of models 1 and 2, thereby proving more stability. We have concluded that
the optimum arrangement of hot wires in car seats can be found with these results. We
hope that our research results can be applied to the arrangement of hot wires and
prevent various types of safety accidents. And these results make it useful for
investigating and predicting the efficiency of hot wires in car seats.
Acknowledgments. “This work was (partly) supported by Advanced Motor Parts
Regional Innovation Center (AMP.RIC) of Kongju National University administered
by MKE (Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea."
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