Title

Investigations of thermal-flow characteristics of minichannel evaporator of air heat pump

Journal title

Archives of Thermodynamics

Yearbook

2021

Volume

vol. 42

Issue

No 4

Authors

Kowalczyk, Michał Jan ; Łęcki, Marcin ; Romaniak, Artur ; Warwas, Bartosz ; Gutkowski, Artur

Affiliation

Kowalczyk, Michał Jan : Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Turbomachinery, Wólczanska 217/221, 93-005 Łódz, Poland ; Łęcki, Marcin : Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Turbomachinery, Wólczanska 217/221, 93-005 Łódz, Poland ; Romaniak, Artur : Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Turbomachinery, Wólczanska 217/221, 93-005 Łódz, Poland ; Warwas, Bartosz : Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Turbomachinery, Wólczanska 217/221, 93-005 Łódz, Poland ; Gutkowski, Artur : Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Turbomachinery, Wólczanska 217/221, 93-005 Łódz, Poland

Keywords

CFD ; Numerical methods ; Heat exchanger ; Minichannel ; Louvered fin

Divisions of PAS

Nauki Techniczne

Coverage

261-279

Publisher

The Committee of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences

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Date

2022.01.17

Type

Article

Identifier

DOI: 10.24425/ather.2021.139662

Editorial Board

International Advisory Board

J. Bataille, Ecole Central de Lyon, Ecully, France

A. Bejan, Duke University, Durham, USA

W. Blasiak, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

G. P. Celata, ENEA, Rome, Italy

L.M. Cheng, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

M. Colaco, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

J. M. Delhaye, CEA, Grenoble, France

M. Giot, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

K. Hooman, University of Queensland, Australia

D. Jackson, University of Manchester, UK

D.F. Li, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

K. Kuwagi, Okayama University of Science, Japan

J. P. Meyer, University of Pretoria, South Africa

S. Michaelides, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth Texas, USA

M. Moran, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

W. Muschik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

I. Müller, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

H. Nakayama, Japanese Atomic Energy Agency, Japan

S. Nizetic, University of Split, Croatia

H. Orlande, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

M. Podowski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA

A. Rusanov, Institute for Mechanical Engineering Problems NAS, Kharkiv, Ukraine

M. R. von Spakovsky, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

A. Vallati, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

H.R. Yang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China