The aim of this project was to know the existing thermal loads in a refrigerator and their variation in time, and synthesize this knowledge, simplifying it wherever possible, to create a user-friendly calculation program. The program was designed in MATLAB and its fluid simulations are done in FLUENT. The results obtained were compared with experimental approximations and returned favourable results.
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Isabel Martins. 2008. Método simplificado de cálculo da potência térmica resultante de cargas térmicas de refrigeração de produtos em frigoríficos domésticos. Master’s degree thesis.
How to cite this article
Martins, I.C.B., Afonso, C. and de Castro, M.D. (2009). 'Simplified Method for Calculating the Resulting Thermal Load of Foodstuffs in Domestic Refrigerators'. SET Proceedings, 8, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.65582/set.2009.059
