Flow distribution in a solar collector panel with horizontally inclined absorber strips

Solar Energy

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1501-1511

  Fan, Jianhua ^a   Shah, Louise Jivan ^a   Furbo, Simon ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Buoyancy effects; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Flow distribution; Solar collector

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER;

BUOYANCY EFFECTS; FLOW DISTRIBUTION;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; SOLAR COLLECTORS;

ABSORPTION; FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; SOLAR POWER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 36448962729     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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