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Air Conditioning and Climate Control DesignSINDA/FLUINT is used in automotive climate control and building HVAC design to simulate transient operation of vapor compression (VC) cycles and for the prediction of pressures, coefficients of performance, and condenser/evaporator liquid positions in a closed two-phase system with a fixed fluid charge. The program can also be used to size components, to estimate the impact of tolerances and other variations, and to help estimate uncertainties given limited test data. This widespread application of SINDA/FLUINT to VC cycles is largely due to an increased demand for transient modeling of air conditioning systems needed to improve energy efficiency. SINDA/FLUINT's unique abilities to analyze transient two-phase phenomena have been recognized as being critical to achieving accurate performance predictions. A key advantage of using SINDA/FLUINT to model VC cycle air conditioners is that it is not written specifically to address such systems: the general-purpose nature of the code can be exploited to integrate the VC cycle model with detailed models of the application (vehicle, building, electronics cabinet, etc.). Applications in this field have included:
Typical SINDA/FLUINT Transient AC Prediction More Information:
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