Flow and heat transfer inside a PV/T collector for building application

Applied Energy

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-115

  Zogou, Olympia ^a   Stapountzis, Herricos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Building integrated photovoltaics; CFD; Flow field; Flow visualization; Hot wire anemometry; PV cooling

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COOLING; FLOW FIELDS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; WIRE;

AIR FLOW; BUILDING-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS; CFD COMPUTATION; COOLING AIR; COOLING EFFECTS; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; HEATED AIR; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HOT WIRE ANEMOMETRY; INDOOR MEASUREMENT; PV INSTALLATIONS; PV PANEL; SERVICE WATER HEATING; STRUCTURAL MODULE; TESTING DEVICE; TURBULENCE FIELDS;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

ANEMOMETER; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; DESIGN; FLOW FIELD; FLOW PATTERN; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; INSTALLATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; VISUALIZATION; WALL;

EID: 80053523678     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.09.019     Document Type: Article

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