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http://dx.doi.org/10.14775/ksmpe.2020.19.01.114

Numerical Analysis of Freezing Phenomena of Water around the Channel Tube of MF Evaporator  

Park, Yong-Seok (School of Convergence Mechanical Engineering, Gyeongsang National University)
Seong, Hong-Seok (LT Precision Co., LTD.)
Suh, Jeong-Se (School of Mechanical Engineering, Gyeongsang National UNIV.)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers / v.19, no.1, 2020 , pp. 114-120 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, the process of freezing around two consecutively arranged channel tubes used for evaporator heat exchange was numerically investigated. Numerical results confirmed that the vortex occurred between the front channel and the rear channel and also that the vortex occurred due to the rapid change of the channel at the rear of the rear channel. These vortices were found to play a role in reducing the ice layer to some extent by the growth of the ice layer at the front and rear of the channel tube. The freezing layer showed a tendency to gradually increase as it passed through the channel pipe. As the wall temperature in the channel pipe decreased, the thickness of the freezing layer increased. As the flow rate of water slowed, the thickness of the freezing layer became thicker. In particular, in the case of a slow flow rate of 0.03 m/s, the freezing layers of the front channel pipe and the rear channel pipe were connected to each other. The narrower the channel, the thinner the freezing layer was in both the front and rear channel tubes. It is found that these thin freezing layers are caused by the low thickness of the temperature boundary layer formed around the channel tube.
Keywords
Freezing; Channel Tube; Water; Numerical Analysis; Heat Exchanger;
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