Journal of Power System Engineering (동력기계공학회지)

The Korean Society for Power System Engineering (한국동력기계공학회)
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Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Tube-and-Plate Condenser with Different Plate Shapes and Inlet Geometries using Numerical Analysis

수치해석에 의한 TUBE-AND-PLATE형 응축기의 판 형태 및 입구 형상변화에 따른 유동 및 열전달 특성

  • Published : 2009.04.30
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Abstract

Recently, a study on condensers for refrigerators has focused on new model which will cost less and will be more efficient. Some widely used condensers for domestic refrigerators are wire-and-tube type condenser, hot-wall type condenser, and spiral type condenser. Some companies which use the spiral type condenser at the moment try to develop a new tube-and-plate type condenser which will cost less and will be as efficient as the spiral type. As a standard condenser type, tube-and-plate type condenser is used in this study. A two-dimensional numerical model for the tube-and-plate type condenser is proposed, and the flow and heat transfer characteristics for several types of condensers are investigated.

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