Experimental study on defrosting mechanism of intermittent ultrasonic resonance for a finned-tube evaporator

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 308-317

  Tan, Haihui ^a   Tao, Tangfei ^a,b   Xu, Guanghua ^a,c   Zhang, Sicong ^a   Wang, Dingyuan ^a   Luo, Xiangui ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Defrosting mechanism; Excitation frequency; Forced vibration; Natural frequency; Ultrasonic resonance defrosting

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION EFFECTS; EXCITATION FREQUENCY; FINNED-TUBE EVAPORATORS; FORCED VIBRATION; GROWTH CHARACTERISTIC; MICROSCOPIC PROCESS; ULTRASONIC RESONANCES; ULTRASONIC VIBRATION;

EVAPORATORS; EXPERIMENTS; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

DEFROSTING;

EID: 84888206267     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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