An air cooled tube-fin evaporator model for an expansion valve control law

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 30, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 135-146

  Aprea, C ^a   Renno, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Control devices; Evaporator models; Heat transfer; Nonlinear differential systems; Numerical methods; Phase transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033214983     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7177(99)00170-3     Document Type: Article

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