Design tool for display case evaporators

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 111 PART 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 1071-1082

  Chandrasekharan, Ramesh ^a,b   Bullard, Clark ^a,b  

^a ASHRAE ^*  (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN TOOLS; GUIDELINES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FANS; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FROST EFFECTS; OPTIMIZATION;

EVAPORATORS;

EID: 27644560577     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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