Natural convection in a nonuniformly heated channel with application to photovoltaic facades

Computational Thermal Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 231-258

  Giroux Julien, Stéphanie ^a   Ménézo, Christophe ^a,b   Vareilles, Jeremie ^a   Pabiou, Hérve ^a   Fossa, Marco ^c   Leonardi, Eddie ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; ACTIVE COMPONENTS; AIR CHANNELS; BUILDING ENVELOPES; BUILDING FACADES; CHANNEL WIDTHS; CONVECTIVE HEAT; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; DOUBLE-SKIN FACADES; DYNAMIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRICAL OUTPUT; EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; GEOMETRICAL ARRANGEMENTS; HEAT SOURCES; HEATED AREA; MAIN-FRAMES; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; OPERATING RANGES; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PARAMETRIC VARIATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS; SPACE FREQUENCY; VERTICAL CHANNELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FACADES; NATURAL CONVECTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78651525509     PISSN: 19402503     EISSN: 19402554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/ComputThermalScien.v1.i3.10     Document Type: Article

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