Improving Vehicle Windshield Defrosting and Demisting

摘要

This paper examines the prevailing fluid flow and heat transfer on the windshield of a full-scale vehicle and examines ways of promoting efficient de-icing and demisting. It establishes that present methods of defrost- ing and demisting windshields are inefficient; since the first area cleared is below the driver's eye level and even this result only occurs some considerable time after the blower has been switched on.