Modeling of a two-stage magnetic refrigerator with wavy-structure gadolinium heat exchangers

International Journal of Refrigeration

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 745-752

  Vuarnoz, D ^a   Kitanovski, A ^a   Gonin, C ^a   Sari, O ^a   Egolf, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Magnetic refrigerator; Modelling; Performance COP; Simulation; Two stage system

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC DEMAGNETIZATION; ADIABATIC TEMPERATURE; COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE; COLD ENERGY; LINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC REFRIGERATORS; MAGNETOCALORIC MATERIALS; MAXIMUM VALUES; MODELICA LANGUAGE; OPTIMAL RUNNING CONDITIONS; PHYSICAL MODEL; POROUS RINGS; STABLE OPERATION; STEADY STATE SOLUTION; TEMPERATURE DECREASE; TWO STAGE; TWO-STAGE SYSTEMS;

COOLING SYSTEMS; DEMAGNETIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GADOLINIUM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; REFRIGERATORS;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 77950627121     PISSN: 01407007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2009.12.016     Document Type: Article

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