Experimental study on frost formation on a cold surface in low atmospheric pressure
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In frost full layer growth, high points in the frost structure melt, come down inside the porous structure, and refreeze into an ice layer, making the frost layer thicker and increasing frost density.
“In frost full layer growth, the high points in frost structure start melting and coming down inside porous structure and again freezing into ice layer. This process of melting and freezing makes frost layer thicker increasing the frost density.”
The frosting process on a cold surface consists of three stages: crystal growth, frost layer growth, and frost layer full growth.
“The frosting process on a cold surface is consisted of three stages: crystal growth, frost layer growth and frost layer full growth.”
In the frost-layer growth stage, crystal height and density increase rapidly compared to the crystal growth stage, forming a porous structure.
“In frost-layer growth stage, crystal height and density increases rapidly compared to crystal growth stage forming a porous structure.”
Initially frost crystals grow independently and rapidly in the vertical direction compared to the horizontal direction; when crystals contact and intersect, vertical growth slows down.
“Initially, crystals grow independently and grow rapidly in vertical direction compared to horizontal direction. When frost crystal begins to contact and intersect, the vertical growth slows down.”
Reduced atmospheric pressure gives rise to a smaller phase transition driving force, making the rate of droplet growth and frost formation slower.
“Reduced atmospheric pressure give rise to smaller phase transition driving force eventually making the rate of droplet growth and frost formation slower [36].”
Frozen droplet sizes on a cold surface are thin layered and uniformly distributed with columnar/dendritic type under low atmospheric pressure (0.1 bar) compared to higher atmospheric pressure (0.5 and 1.0 bar), in which frost crystal shapes are irregular.
“The frozen droplet sizes on cold surface are thin layered uniformly distributed with columnar/dendritic type under low atmospheric pressure (0.1 bar) compared to higher atmospheric pressure (0.5 and 1.0 bar) in which frost crystal shapes are irregular [36].”
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- Authors
- Chen, Y., Lu, P., Shen, C., & Zhang, Q.
- Affiliations
- Southeast University (CN)
- Yangzhou University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Chen, Yongping
- Venue
- Applied Thermal Engineering
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-11
- Volume
- 90
- Pages
- 86-93
- ISSN
- 1359-4311 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W837513643
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 3.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Applied Thermal Engineering (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (11190015)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Aerospace Engineering › Icing and De-icing Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanics of Materials › Freezing and Crystallization Processes
- Keywords
- frost formation, low atmospheric pressure, droplet growth, droplet freezing, frost thickness, natural convection
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