Análise experimental e numérica aplicada no desenvolvimento e otimização de um condicionador de ar

Abstract

In this work a practical model will be built and, using the software Ansys Fluent 16.2 Student version, also a numerical method of an air conditioner will be created in order to correlate them. Still using the above mentioned above program, there was a great effort in the optimization process of the numerical model in order to get the best configuration of the proposed air conditioner. The overall heat transfer coefficient of the prototype was calculated for the physical validation and compared to the literature’s one. The proposals made and numerically simulated were able to vary the average air temperature of the air conditioner’s output by up to 20.67% in the best-case scenario, with a cooling capacity of 304.93W or 0.087TR. Through computational simulation is concluded that it is possible to analyze experimental results with high precision and still find ways to improve the prototypes without spending time and money in their physical construction.