Natural convection simulations and numerical determination of critical tilt angles for a parallel plate channel

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 685-695

  Tari, Ilker ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Inclined channel; Natural convection; Parallel plate channel; Semi implicit time stepping; Solar energy; Spectral methods

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATIONS; CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIAL EXPANSION; DENSITY VARIATIONS; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; INCLINED ENCLOSURE; MINIMUM HEAT FLUX; PARALLEL PLATE CHANNEL; PARALLEL PLATES; PARALLEL-PLATE CHANNELS; PSEUDOSPECTRAL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SEMI-IMPLICIT TIME STEPPING; SOLAR ENERGY APPLICATIONS; SPECTRAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TILT ANGLE; UNSTEADY NATURAL CONVECTION;

CHANNEL FLOW; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL CONVECTION; PARALLEL FLOW; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 75149164229     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2009.11.012     Document Type: Article

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