TY - JOUR
T1 - Frosting mechanism and behaviors on surfaces with simple geometries
T2 - A state-of-the-art literature review
AU - Zhang, Long
AU - Song, Mengjie
AU - Deng, Shiming
AU - Shen, Jun
AU - Dang, Chaobin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - Frosting causes negative impacts in many technical and engineering fields, such as refrigeration, air source heat pump, aircraft, wind power generation, and power grids. To alleviate the negative impacts of frosting, studies on frosting characteristics, avoiding and delaying frosting, and defrosting mechanisms and methods have been carried out for decades. Among these studies, frosting characteristics, which are the fundamental basis for defrosting, avoiding, and delaying frosting are consistently the hot research spots. Considering that complex structures can be usually regarded as the combination of simple geometries, in this paper, a comprehensive review of the literature related to the frosting mechanism and behaviors on surfaces with simple geometries is presented. The former covers frost formation process and morphology, frost layer structure model, and frosting characteristic parameters, such as frost thickness and effective frost thermal conductivity. The latter is further divided into six parts based on the configurations of cold surfaces, including flat plates with a fixed surface temperature, flat plates with a fixed base temperature, cylinders, parallel plates, set of fins and semipermeable membranes. Based on the review, the research gaps in the related study fields are identified, and recommendations for further research are offered. The literature review presented in this paper can provide a comprehensive and systematic reference for the people who are working in the study fields where frosting is commonly encountered.
AB - Frosting causes negative impacts in many technical and engineering fields, such as refrigeration, air source heat pump, aircraft, wind power generation, and power grids. To alleviate the negative impacts of frosting, studies on frosting characteristics, avoiding and delaying frosting, and defrosting mechanisms and methods have been carried out for decades. Among these studies, frosting characteristics, which are the fundamental basis for defrosting, avoiding, and delaying frosting are consistently the hot research spots. Considering that complex structures can be usually regarded as the combination of simple geometries, in this paper, a comprehensive review of the literature related to the frosting mechanism and behaviors on surfaces with simple geometries is presented. The former covers frost formation process and morphology, frost layer structure model, and frosting characteristic parameters, such as frost thickness and effective frost thermal conductivity. The latter is further divided into six parts based on the configurations of cold surfaces, including flat plates with a fixed surface temperature, flat plates with a fixed base temperature, cylinders, parallel plates, set of fins and semipermeable membranes. Based on the review, the research gaps in the related study fields are identified, and recommendations for further research are offered. The literature review presented in this paper can provide a comprehensive and systematic reference for the people who are working in the study fields where frosting is commonly encountered.
KW - Cylinder
KW - Flat plate
KW - Frosting behavior
KW - Frosting mechanism
KW - Parallel plate
KW - Set of fins
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U2 - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2022.118984
DO - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2022.118984
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85134596768
SN - 1359-4311
VL - 215
JO - Applied Thermal Engineering
JF - Applied Thermal Engineering
M1 - 118984
ER -