Performance optimization of a combined heat pump cycle

Open Systems and Information Dynamics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 377-389

  Chen, Lingen ^a   Bi, Yuehong ^b   Sun, Fengrui ^a   Wu, Chih ^c  

^a NAVAL UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combined heat pump cycle; Optimization; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043169862     PISSN: 12301612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:OPSY.0000009557.31330.ef     Document Type: Article

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