Abstract
As frost formation phenomena cause various problems, such as performance deterioration of heat exchangers in cryogenic engineering, we need to understand the frost formation mechanism in more detail. Authors have already reported on the approach for predicting the quasi-steady- frost formation, which was based on inhomogeneous frost growth model. Using this approach, the authors also reported the model could show frost growth with respect to time. In this paper, as a next step, we evaluate the effectiveness of the inhomogeneous frost growth model through various simulation results based mainly on the frost surface temperature. Through these desktop simulations, we can find that the difference between the measured data using a radiation thermometer and the simulation results is small in terms of qualitative evaluation. We also find that the initial frost height is more sensitive to these simulation results than the initial frost density.
