Airflow patterns in an enclosure loaded with slotted pallets

International Journal of Refrigeration

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 899-910

  Tapsoba, Mitoubkieta ^a   Moureh, Jean ^a   Flick, Denis ^b  

^a Irstea   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Air; Cabin; Experiment; Flow; Pallet; Refrigerated transport; Road transport; Speed

Indexed keywords

AIR; ANEMOMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA REDUCTION; EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PALLETS; REFRIGERATED CONTAINERS; SPEED; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CABIN; FLOW; LASER DOPPLER ANEMOMETER; REFRIGERATED TRANSPORT; ROAD TRANSPORT;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 33746546122     PISSN: 01407007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2006.01.011     Document Type: Review

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