Numerical investigation of natural convection loss from cavity receivers in solar dish applications

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Paitoonsurikarn, S ^a   Lovegrove, K ^a   Hughes, G ^a   Pye, J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

computational fluid dynamics; natural convection; open cavity receiver; paraboloidal dish

Indexed keywords

CAVITY GEOMETRY; CAVITY LENGTH; CAVITY RECEIVER; COMBINED EFFECT; ENERGY LOSS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; NEW CORRELATIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPEN CAVITY; OPERATING CONDITION; PARABOLOIDAL DISH; SYSTEM EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CORRELATION METHODS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; PUBLISHING; SOLAR ENERGY;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 79953239031     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4003582     Document Type: Article

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