Thermal performance analysis on unit tube for heat pipe receiver

Solar Energy

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 875-882

  Cui, Haiting ^a,b   Wang, Zhenhui ^a   Guo, Yanshu ^a   Xu, Weiqiang ^b   Yuan, Xiugan ^b  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Heat pipe; Heat receiver; Solar dynamic power; Thermal performance

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HEAT RECEIVERS; LIQUID PCM FRACTION; SOLAR DYNAMIC POWER; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

HEAT PIPES;

HEAT PIPES; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER; THERMAL POWER;

EID: 33744546366     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2005.05.003     Document Type: Article

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