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The design of air ducts of an Automotive Ventilation System presents as one of the complicators the restriction of space. In its design a symmetrical configuration is not always possible, due to the presence of anothers components of the vehicle, thus the ducts are distributed in asymmetric structures and normally have sharp curves, configurations that contribute to the loss, irregular distribution of the flow and production of noise. This work presents a numerical study of the incompressible flow of air in the ducts of an automotive ventilation system. The purpose is to study and compare the behavior of the fluid dynamic flow, the loss on the process and the flow distribution between two different ducts: one with symmetrical geometry and the other one with asymmetrical geometry. The study was performed using commercial software Star CCM +® that employs finite volume method.

Aiming the decrease of manufacturing costs, the automotive industry uses Computational Aided Engineering (CAE) and prototype testing for product development. In the field of simulation CAE could be performed using FEA (finite element analysis) or CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamic), the last one is the analysis of systems involving fluid flow, heat transfer and associated phenomena such as chemical reactions by means of computer-based simulation. One of the most important components of cooling system is a water pump which is evaluated through the fluid dynamic analysis. Therefore, this work aims to analyze the fluid flow inside an automotive water pump considering a three-dimensional steady-state using CFD, but also developing a methodology to evaluate it. The parameters of the analysis and the volumetric mesh were according to the simulated results approached the experimental results.