Radiative heat transfer in a solar air heater covered with a plastic film

Solar Energy

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-40

  Jannot, Yves ^a   Coulibaly, Yézouma ^b  

^a Ecole National Superieure Polytechnique Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^b EIER   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTIC FILMS; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR RADIATION;

RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; SOLAR AIR HEATER;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 0030976676     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(96)00145-4     Document Type: Article

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