Air velocity characteristics within vented pallets loaded in a refrigerated vehicle with and without air ducts

International Journal of Refrigeration

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 220-234

  Moureh, J ^a   Tapsoba, S ^a   Derens, E ^a   Flick, D ^a  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Air; Computational fluid dynamics; Duct; Experiment; Flow; Modelling; Pallet; Refrigerated transport; Road transport; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

AIR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; DUCTS; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; PALLETS; REFRIGERATED CONTAINERS; REFRIGERATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROADS AND STREETS; SPHERES; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION; TRUCKS; TURBULENCE MODELS; VENTILATION;

DUCT; EXPERIMENT; FLOW; MODELLING; PALLET; REFRIGERATED TRANSPORT; ROAD TRANSPORT;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 59449083839     PISSN: 01407007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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