A new time- and space-dependent model for predicting frost formation

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 447-457

  Cui, J ^a   Li, W Z ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Jiang, Z Y ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Shanghai Office   (China)

Author keywords

CFD; Frost formation and growth; Nucleation theory; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

CFD; CFD (COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS); COLD SURFACE; FROST FORMATION; FROST LAYERS; FROST THICKNESS; GROWTH PERIOD; HUMID AIR; INLET AIR; NUCLEATION THEORY; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; UPSTREAM REGION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROP FORMATION; FROST RESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; SURFACE STRUCTURE; WATER VAPOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 78649928317     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2010.09.022     Document Type: Article

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