The experimental validation of a comprehensive unified model for optics and heat transfer in line-axis solar energy systems

Solar Energy

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 121-133

  Eames, P C ^a   Smyth, M ^a   Norton, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; LIGHT SOURCES;

SOLAR ENERGY COLLECTORS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

HEAT TRANSFER; MODEL; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 0035796497     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(01)00027-5     Document Type: Article

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