Two-phase Euler-Lagrange CFD simulation of evaporative cooling in a Wind Tower

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 991-1000

  Saffari, Hamid ^a   Hosseinnia, S M ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Evaporative cooling; Surface injection; Two phase flow; Wind Tower

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE; ANALYTICAL DATA; CFD SIMULATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EULERIAN APPROACH; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; INLET AIR; LAGRANGE; LAGRANGIAN APPROACHES; LOW SPEED; NEW DESIGN; OPEN SOURCE PACKAGE; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; TOWER COLUMN; WATER DROPLETS; WATER PHASE; WIND TOWER; WIND TOWERS; WIND VELOCITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COOLING; DROP FORMATION; EVAPORATION; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GAS TURBINES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MOISTURE; TOWERS; TWO PHASE FLOW; WETTING;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 67649365434     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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