Numerical modelling of forced convective heat transfer from the inclined windward roof of an isolated low-rise building with application to photovoltaic/thermal systems

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1950-1963

  Karava, Panagiota ^a   Jubayer, Chowdhury Mohammad ^b   Savory, Eric ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Building; Computational fluid dynamics; Convective heat transfer coefficient; Photovoltaic thermal systems; RANS

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER WIND TUNNEL; BUILDING GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; DIMENSIONLESS CORRELATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLAT PLATE; FORCED CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; LEADING EDGE; LOW-RISE BUILDINGS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHOTOVOLTAIC-THERMAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC/THERMAL; RANS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; ROOF SLOPES; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SCALE MODELS; SEPARATED FLOWS; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENCE LEVEL; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; UNIFORM FLOW; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROOFS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; WIND EFFECTS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 79955470276     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.02.042     Document Type: Article

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