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Numerical prediction of the unsteady temperature distribution in a cooling cabinet.

Author(s) : ALFARO-AYALA J. A., URIBE-RAMÍREZ A. R., MINCHACA-MOJICA J. I., et al.

Type of article: Article, IJR article

Summary

An unsteady state numerical study of a small cooling cabinet, using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), is presented in this work. Three different cooling levels are simulated until 3.5?h of operational time is reached. The prediction of the temperature and the velocity distributions of the air inside the cooling cabinet is obtained using three different models: a) the use of constant properties (CP), b) the approximation of all the properties fitted to temperature polynomials (PFTP) and c) the variation of the density with temperature according to the Boussinesq approximation (BA). The CFD numerical results were validated against experimental data. It was concluded that both PFTP and BA models are good approaches to predict the unsteady temperature inside the cooling cabinet.

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  • Original title: Numerical prediction of the unsteady temperature distribution in a cooling cabinet.
  • Record ID : 30019849
  • Languages: English
  • Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 73
  • Publication date: 2017/01

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