Development of a "Solar Patch" Calculator to evaluate heliostat-field irradiance as a boundary condition in CFD models

ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 483-490

  Khalsa, Siri Sahib S ^a   Ho, Clifford K ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RECEIVER; CFD MODELS; CFD SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC (CFD); CONVECTIVE LOSS; DISCRETE ORDINATES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HELIOSTAT FIELD; MICROSOFT EXCEL VBA; MULTIPLE BEAM; RADIATION MODELS; RECEIVER LOCATION; TIME OF DAY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

EID: 80051890557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2010-90052     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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