A numerical investigation of the refrigerant maldistribution from a header towards parallel channels in an evaporator of automotive air conditioning system

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 55, Issue 13-14, 2012, Pages 3335-3343

  Stevanovic, Vladimir ^a   Cucuz, Stojan ^b   Carl Meissner, Waldemar ^b   Maslovaric, Blazenka ^a   Prica, Sanja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b VISTEON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Header; Maldistribution; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE AIR CONDITIONING; AUTOMOTIVE AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEMS; COMPACT HEAT EXCHANGER; COMPUTATIONAL MULTIFLUID DYNAMICS; DESIGN CHANGE; EXIT TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GAS-PHASE DISTRIBUTION; HEADER; MALDISTRIBUTION; NONUNIFORMITY; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; OPERATING LOADS; PARALLEL CHANNEL; REFRIGERANT LIQUIDS; TEMPERATURE STRATIFICATION; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

REFRIGERANTS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EVAPORATORS;

EID: 84859378974     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.02.071     Document Type: Article

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