“…The accuracy of such models depends on the adequate description of different processes involved, such as suction and discharge, leakage and heat transfer. However, there are few studies (Sunder, 1997;Ooi and Zhu, 2004;Jang and Jeong, 2006) dedicated to convective heat transfer in scroll compressors, greatly due to the level of complexity imposed by the restricted space for measurement and small time scales. As a consequence, there remains much uncertainty about predictions of heat transfer for operating conditions found in actual applications.…”