Airflow maldistribution and the performance of a packaged air conditioning unit evaporator

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 515-528

  Aganda, A A ^a   Coney, J E R ^b   Sheppard, C G W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; HEAT TRANSFER; PERFORMANCE; REFRIGERANTS; THERMOSTATS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AIRFLOW MALDISTRIBUTION; EVAPORATOR CIRCUIT; NON UNIFORM VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENTS; THERMOSTATIC VALVE;

EVAPORATORS;

EID: 0034174176     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-4311(99)00038-1     Document Type: Article

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