Modeling frost formation within a commercial 3-D CFD code

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 485-506

  Ellgas, Simon ^a   Pfitzner, Michael ^b  

^a BMW GROUP   (Germany)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FROST EFFECTS; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; UNSTEADY FLOW;

CRYOGENIC HYDROGEN; FREEZING BODY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 36048954128     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780701678224     Document Type: Article

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