Air-side thermal-hydraulic performance of louvered-fin, flat-tube heat exchangers with sequential frost-growth cycles

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 111 PART 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 487-495

  Xia, Yanping ^a,b   Hrnjak, Predrag S ^a,b   Jacobi, Anthony M ^a,b  

^a ASHRAE ^*  (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFROST; FLAT-TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS; PERIODIC DISTRIBUTION;

AIR; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FROST EFFECTS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 27644471824     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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