Natural convective flow and heat transfer in a collector storage with an immersed heat exchanger: Numerical study

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 324-332

  Su, Yan ^a   Davidson, Jane H ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat Exchanger; Integral Collector Storage; Natural Convection; Solar

Indexed keywords

FLUID MOTION; INTEGRAL COLLECTOR STORAGE; SOLAR; TRANSIENT FLUID DYNAMICS;

ASPECT RATIO; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUSSELT NUMBER;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 24744442826     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1934735     Document Type: Article

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