Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation about Comparison of Different Forms of Return Air in a Small Cold Store

Abstract:

The quantity of the cold store in our country has been rapidly rising since the 1990s, however, the flow field in the cold store is difficult to obtain accurately by experiments. With reference to the experiences in previous numerical simulations in this paper, CFD is used for analyzing two forms of return air in the cold store with the Finite Volume Methods and the SIMPLE Revised. As a result, Combining with the non-equilibrium wall function, it is found that taking the way of return air on both sides of the fan is more reasonable and the cooling consumption of the empty cold store can be saved before the products enter the cold store. Furthermore, the numerical simulation results can provide reference for choosing fans in the small cold store.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 516-517)
• Pages: 1133-1138
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.516-517.1133
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Yi Tang, Jing Xie, Jin Feng Wang, Chen Miao, Yi Zheng
• Keywords: Airflow Distribution, Cold Store, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Numerical Simulation, Return Air

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