Investigation of convection and radiation heat losses from modified cavity receiver of solar parabolic dish using asymptotic computational fluid dynamics

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 597-607

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

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID; DIAMETER RATIO; DISH COLLECTORS; EFFECT OF PARAMETERS; HEAT LOSS MODELS; MODIFIED CAVITY RECEIVER; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; NUSSELT NUMBER CORRELATION; PARABOLIC DISHES; RADIATION HEAT LOSS; RADIATIVE HEAT LOSS; TEMPERATURE RATIO;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

HEAT LOSSES;

EID: 77649245972     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630903425890     Document Type: Article

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