Buoyancy induced heat transfer and fluid flow inside a tilted wavy solar collector

Building and Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2062-2071

  Varol, Yasin ^a   Oztop, Hakan F ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Inclined enclosure; Natural convection; Wavy solar collector

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CEILINGS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER;

RAYLEIGH NUMBER; WAVY SOLAR COLLECTOR;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

BUOYANCY; CEILINGS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; SOLAR COLLECTORS;

BUOYANCY; FLOW FIELD; FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 33845568076     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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