An experimental study was reported earlier on the development of frost formation by humid flow passing over the cylinder. In this study, dimensionless correlations used in previous experimental data, and reported empirical correlations of the Nusselt number, were used. This paper reports results of an experimental and numerical investigation where the emphasis was placed on obtaining empirical correlation for the Nusselt number. In this work some experimental results of the frost thickness around every cylinder in a triangular arrangement are presented, an estimated experimental correlation to find Nusselt number. This correlation is based on the experimental measurements in a wind tunnel situated in the Laboratory of Thermal storage and Fluids in the Mechanical Engineering Faculty at Unicamp. A numerical study is performed to study the frost formation in the cylindrical system.
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