Study of the natural convection phenomena inside a wall solar chimney with one wall adiabatic and one wall under a heat flux

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2266-2275

  Bacharoudis, Evangellos ^a   Vrachopoulos, Michalis Gr ^b   Koukou, Maria K ^b   Margaris, Dionysios ^a   Filios, Andronikos E ^b   Mavrommatis, Stamatis A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Environmental Research Laboratory   (Greece)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Experiment; Heat transfer; Simulation; Wall solar chimney

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRESSURE GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW;

ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS; THERMO FLUID PHENOMENA; WALL SOLAR CHIMNEY;

CHIMNEYS;

EID: 34248522782     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2007.01.021     Document Type: Article

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