Experimental and numerical study on the behavior of a multi-layer for active magnetic refrigerator based on La-Fe-Co-Si

The present workdedicated to study the experimental validation of a numerical model based on La-Fe-Co-Si layered operating near room temperature. For this purpose, a numerical simulation based on the transient energy equations is proposed for modelling the heat exchange between the multilayer material and the carrier fluid in the regenerator bed with an applied magnetic field of 1.5 T. The main obtained results show comparison between numerical model and experimental set-up including, exergy and pressure drop.