Fischer and Rice [11] developed a quite complete ‘‘deterministic”
model that considers the three zones and the condenser geometry.
The use of this model requires a detailed knowledge of the condenser
geometry. This kind of model allows predicting the condenser performance
almost without any experiment or catalogue data.
On the other hand, the ‘‘theoretical–experimental” model is
used when the heat exchanger geometry is not known and when
the heat exchanger performance is known at the nominal conditions
or at several conditions. Usually this approach uses some
parameters to fit the manufacturer or experimental results with
the simulated ones, as in Cuevas et al. [8].