Influence of shelf length on performance of retail multi-deck food display cabinets

The efficiency of air curtain is an important parameter for food refrigerated display cabinet. This paper is based on a typical multi-deck food refrigerated display cabinet, mainly investigated the cabinet shelf structure on the character of the multi-deck display cabinet. The flow and heat transfer characters for display cabinet are numerically investigated. The results show that the shelf structure is a critical parameter for open multi-deck display cabinet.