Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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787416 | International Journal of Refrigeration | 2008 | 7 Pages |
An approach for modelling and scaling refrigeration cycles aided by CFD software is presented. The advantages are the high resolution of the results especially for geometrical details. Furthermore parallel processing of flow mechanics and thermodynamics is done and an easy evaluation of scaling the model as well as the investigation of transport behaviour of several refrigerants are possible. The aim was setting up a model to calculate the three-dimensional refrigerant behaviour in a closed cycle tube with condenser, dryer, expansion device and evaporator which delivers all physical properties of interest like pressure, velocity, temperature, enthalpy and entropy (National Institute of Standards and Technology. Manual and Property Models for the Refprop-Database. Available from: