Orientador: Carlos Teofilo Salinas Sedano / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T04:21:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Armengol_JanMateu_M.pdf: 6999606 bytes, checksum: e35806586b55eb3f8f1b370625009ba8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Neste trabalho é apresentado um modelo para a formação de gelo poroso entre placas planas paralelas baseado em um novo tratamento bidimensional da taxa de crescimento. O modelo considera as equações de transporte de quantidade de movimento, energia e massa. Para a resolução do modelo, as equações são discretizadas usando o método de volumes finitos em um domínio bidimensional composto por ar e gelo poroso. A interface móvel ar-gelo é tratada utilizando a formulação de malha fixa. O domínio computacional inclui a região frontal das placas planas com a finalidade de estudar o crescimento do gelo poroso nessa região. O código numérico é verificado por partes de acordo com artigos de referência na literatura e o modelo é validado com dados experimentais. Os dados experimentais, reportando temperatura e crescimento de forma locais, coincidem com os resultados numéricos com um erro relativo inferior a 10 \% para o caso intermediário de taxa de umidade / Abstract: In this study, a frost formation model is presented based on a new two-dimensional approach for the growth rate. For modeling the frost formation over parallel cold plates, the basic transport equations of mass, energy and momentum have been discretized using the finite volume method in a two-dimensional domain in which air and frost are considered. A volume tracking method employing a fixed grid formulation is used to deal with the air-frost moving boundary. An extended domain in the inlet boundary has been considered in order to study the frost formation in the leading edge of the plate. The numerical code is gradually verified using benchmarking references. The numerical results have been validated against experimental data in which frost growth and temperature as a function of time are reported as local values. The model predictions of the frost thickness as a function of time agree with the experimental data within 10 \% of deviation for the case of intermediate humidity ratio / Mestrado / Termica e Fluidos / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

This study numerically examines the heat transfer and pressure drop performance of finned tube heat exchangers with staggered and inline tube layout for a range of tube pitch. The first part of the thesis considers the case where the heat exchanger is placed in fully ducted airflow. The simulations indicate that the performance reduced considerably for the staggered tube layout with an increase in the tube pitch, but a minimal difference for the inline tube arrangement. The effects of other geometrical parameters like fin pitch and the number of tube rows are then presented. Finally, a correlation for fin and tube heat exchangers with inline tube layout is proposed based on 280 simulations for 70 different configurations. The proposed heat transfer correlation can describe the database within ±8% discrepancy while the friction factor correlation can correlate the dataset within a ±10% discrepancy. The mean deviations for heat transfer and friction factor correlations are 4.3% and 5.4%. An important factor that influences the performance of flat plate and finned tube heat exchangers is when there is bypass flow around the heat exchanger. The next section of this thesis numerically investigates the partially ducted inline fin and tube heat exchanger with side bypass. The effects of the side clearance and the Reynolds number on the heat transfer and the pressure drop performance of the heat exchanger are presented. The simulations indicate that the heat transfer performance depreciates by more than 25% for infinite side clearance. The study then compares the pressure difference observed for entry, exit and the friction pressure drop with the various correlations available in the literature. Finally, the heat transfer and pressure drop performance for staggered and inline tube layouts are compared. / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)