Refrigerant maldistribution in an evaporator of automotive air conditioning system: investigation and a design improvement by numerical simulations

dc.creator	Stevanović, Vladimir
dc.creator	Cucuz, S.
dc.creator	Seeds, N.
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-19T17:13:29Z
dc.date.available	2022-09-19T17:13:29Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.identifier.uri	https://machinery.mas.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1733
dc.description.abstract	Temperature stratification in the exit stream of cooled air from the plate and fin evaporator in automotive air conditioning occurs under low operating loads. Numerical simulations and analyses show that this malfunction is caused by the uneven distribution of the refrigerant liquid from the two-phase mixture in the header towards the evaporating channel. The applied numerical approach is validated for available experimental conditions. Refrigerant two-phase flows in a header of improved design are numerically investigated and a reduction of the temperature stratification is demonstrated.	en
dc.publisher	Woodhead Publishing Limited
dc.rights	restrictedAccess
dc.source	Institution of Mechanical Engineers - VTMS 2011, Vehicle Thermal Management Systems Conference Proce
dc.title	Refrigerant maldistribution in an evaporator of automotive air conditioning system: investigation and a design improvement by numerical simulations	en
dc.type	conferenceObject
dc.rights.license	ARR
dc.citation.epage	112
dc.citation.other	: 103-112
dc.citation.spage	103
dc.identifier.doi	10.1533/9780857094735.2.103
dc.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-84888618954
dc.identifier.wos	000342451500009
dc.type.version	publishedVersion