Animation of water drops on a windshield is used as a special effect in advanced driving games and simulators. Existing water droplet animation methods trace the trajectories of the droplets on the glass taking into account the hydrophilic or water-attracting nature of the glass material. Meanwhile, in the automobile industry, usage of hydrophobic glass windshields has recently been a common so...

A green windshield at night reduces acuity from 20/32 to 20/46, and combined with pink glasses to 20/60. Resolution thresholds decreased from 10 to 42 seconds of arc, so that a pair of objects that could be seen through a clear windshield at 100 feet decreased to 25 feet through the green. Other visual functions found "defective in night-driving conditions with tinted glass" were stereo acuity,...

The defrosting performance of automotive air conditioners plays an important role in driving safety. This paper uses CFD to simulate the internal flow field automobile numerically. Simulation results show that distribution is unreasonable. horizontal grilles are added at outlets improve automobile. Air-flow jet angle and length conditioning (L1, L2) selected as design variables based on radial ...

The aerodynamic characteristics directly affect driving characteristics, stability, operation, oil consumption, and safety of automobiles. The aerodynamic analyses of automobiles, such as the virtual wind tunnel experiment simulation, based on finite element methods have provided useful theoretical reference to automobile bodywork design. In this study, the air flow vector variation and distrib...

Application of flexible structures has been significantly, increased in industry and aerospace missions due to their contributions and unique advantages over the rigid counterparts. In this paper, vibration analysis of a flexible structure i.e., automobile wiper blade is investigated and controlled. The wiper generates unwanted noise and vibration during the wiping the rain and other particles ...

Increasingly, automobile designers are utilizing tinted glasses for concept cars, specialty models, or to differentiate their vehicles. The objective of this study was to assess whether alternating different tinted windshields would affect aging drivers' visual acuity and glare response. Two commercially available windshields (bluish and greenish with same transmittance) were compared. The test...

Transparent electronics is an emerging science and technology field concentrates on producing ‘invisible’ electronics circuit and optoelectronics devices. The application contains consumer electronics such as automobile windshield, transparent solar panel, transparent display and real time wearable display. In the conventional Si/III-V based electronics, the structure is based on semiconductor ...

The windshield is one of the major components in a vehicle that determines the injury to a pedestrian’s head. Therefore, it is critical to study the damage to windshield glazing so as to promote the protection structure for pedestrians. In this paper, classical plate theory in combination with the Green strain and the von Karman assumption is used to develop constitutive relations to describe t...

The objective of this paper is to optimize defrost/demist performance in a vehicle. However, to initiate the problem, it is necessary to have a thorough understanding of flow behavior within the compartment. So a full-scale model of passenger compartment has been modeled and the air stream from very near to the windshield up to back of the compartment has been analyzed applying computational fl...