An improved model for natural convection heat loss from modified cavity receiver of solar dish concentrator

Solar Energy

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1884-1892

  Reddy, K S ^a   Sendhil Kumar, N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Modified cavity receiver; Natural convection heat loss; Nusselt number correlations; Solar dish concentrator

Indexed keywords

2-D MODEL; 3D MODELS; ACCURATE ESTIMATION; APERTURE PLANE; APPROXIMATE ESTIMATION; CAVITY RECEIVER; CONVECTIVE HEAT; DISH COLLECTORS; DISH CONCENTRATOR; IMPROVED MODELS; MODIFIED CAVITY RECEIVER; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUSSELT NUMBER CORRELATION; NUSSELT NUMBER CORRELATIONS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; SOLAR DISH CONCENTRATOR;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESTIMATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HEAT LOSSES;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMAL CONVECTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 69949088902     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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