Modelling refrigerant distribution in microchannel evaporators

International Journal of Refrigeration

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1736-1743

  Brix, Wiebke ^a   Kærn, Martin Ryhl ^a,b   Elmegaard, Brian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DANFOSS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Distribution; Evaporator; Heat exchanger; Heat transfer; Microchannel; Modelling; R134a; Review; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COOLING CAPACITY; DISTRIBUTION; HEAT EXCHANGER PERFORMANCE; INLET QUALITY; MICROCHANNEL TUBES; MODELLING; NONUNIFORM; R134A; SECONDARY-SIDE; SIMULATION; STEADY-STATE MODELS; TWO CHANNEL;

HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROCHANNELS; REFRIGERANTS; SIMULATORS;

EVAPORATORS;

EID: 69749102651     PISSN: 01407007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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