We wish to determine whether less exergy is destroyed when we drive a car with all windows
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We wish to determine whether less exergy is destroyed when we drive a car with all windows closed and the air conditioner on than when we drive with the windows open and the air conditioner off. The car can be modeled as a blunt body with frontal area \(A=5 \mathrm{~m}^{2}\) traveling through air with the velocity \(U_{\infty}\). It is known that in the flow regime of interest, the drag coefficients are \(C_{D}=0.47\) when the windows are closed and \(C_{D}=0.51\) with the windows open. The air conditioner consumes electrical power at a constant rate, \(W_{a c}=746 \mathrm{~W}\).
Try to show the velocity range in which one of the options is better than the other from an exergy destruction point of view.
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Design And Analysis Of Thermal Systems
ISBN: 9780367502546
1st Edition
Authors: Malay Kumar Das, Pradipta K. Panigrahi