A generalized model of a real refrigerator and its performance

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 401-412

  Chen, Lingen ^a   Sun, Fengrui ^a   Wu, Chih ^a,b   Kiang, R L ^c  

^a Naval Academy of Engineering   (China)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^c NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Irreversibility; Optimization; Performance; Refrigerator

Indexed keywords

CARNOT CYCLE; HEAT RESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

IRREVERSIBILITY; STEADY STATE MODEL;

REFRIGERATION;

EID: 0031118317     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1359-4311(96)00043-9     Document Type: Article

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