Simulation of air curtains for vertical display cases with a two-fluid model
In a vertical open display case, air curtains are used to weaken the influence of ambient air on the store. The flow and heat transfer characteristics of air curtains in a vertical display case are simulated with a two-fluid turbulence model in this paper, which takes the fluid in the space to be si...
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Published in | Applied thermal engineering Vol. 27; no. 14; pp. 2583 - 2591 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Oxford
Elsevier Ltd
01.10.2007
Elsevier |
Subjects | |
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Summary: | In a vertical open display case, air curtains are used to weaken the influence of ambient air on the store. The flow and heat transfer characteristics of air curtains in a vertical display case are simulated with a two-fluid turbulence model in this paper, which takes the fluid in the space to be simulated as a mixture of turbulent fluid and non-turbulent fluid. The air curtains are taken as a turbulent fluid and described by the conventional
k–
ε turbulence model. The ambient air outside the display case is considered as a non-turbulent fluid and calculated by a laminar model. The exchanges of mass, momentum and energy between the turbulent and the non-turbulent fluids are expressed by empirical relations. The simulation results based on the two-fluid model are compared not only with experimental data, but also with the simulation results when the
k–
ε model is used for the whole simulated space. The comparisons indicate that the two-fluid model enables to predict thermal stratification phenomenon more accurately and shows better agreement with the measured values than the
k–
ε model. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1359-4311 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2007.01.027 |