Characteristics of heat dissipation from photovoltaic cells on the bottom wall of a horizontal cabinet to ambient natural convective air stream

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3959-3967

  Tsay, Y L ^a   Cheng, J C ^a   Hong, H F ^b   Shih, Z H ^b  

^a NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Flow separation and reattachment; Photovoltaic cell; Recirculation cell; Thermal interaction

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

AIR STREAMS; BOTTOM WALL; CONDUCTING WALL; CONVECTIVE COOLING; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; GLASS LENS; HOTSPOT TEMPERATURE; METAL WALLS; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RECIRCULATION CELLS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; THERMAL INTERACTION; VELOCITY FIELD;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

AMBIENT AIR; COOLING; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; EMISSIVITY; FLOW PATTERN; HEAT TRANSFER; METAL; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SEPARATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONVECTION; VELOCITY PROFILE; WALL;

EID: 79959380222     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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