Thermal modelling of a photovoltaic module under variable free convection conditions

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 33-34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-91

  Caluianu, Ionuţ Rǎzvan ^a   Bǎlǎtreţu, Florin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Romania)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Heat transfer; Photovoltaic module; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; ENERGY EQUATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE ELEMENT; GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; SIMULATION MODEL; TEMPERATURE FIELD; THERMAL MODELLING; VELOCITY PROFILES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 80055072224     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.09.016     Document Type: Article

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