Natural convection effects in solar stills

Desalination

Volumn 183, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 173-178

  Omri, Ahmed ^a   Orfi, Jamel ^a   Nasrallah, Sassi Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Natural convection; Nusselt number; Rayleigh number

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; ISOTHERMS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOLAR ENERGY;

FLOW STRUCTURE; NATURAL CONVECTION EFFECTS; SOLAR STILLS; SOLAR WATER DISTILLERS; THERMAL EXCHANGE;

DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT;

HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; SOLAR STILL;

EID: 27944489948     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2005.04.025     Document Type: Article

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