Heat loss characteristics of trapezoidal cavity receiver for solar linear concentrating system

Applied Energy

Volumn 93, Issue , 2012, Pages 523-531

  Natarajan, Sendhil Kumar ^a   Reddy, K S ^b   Mallick, Tapas Kumar ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

CLFR; Combined natural convection and surface radiation; Non Boussinesq; Nusselt number correlation; Trapezoidal cavity absorber

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; HEAT LOSSES; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CLFR; COMBINED NATURAL CONVECTION AND SURFACE RADIATION; NON-BOUSSINESQ; NUSSELT NUMBER CORRELATION; TRAPEZOIDAL CAVITY;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

ABSORPTION; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT BALANCE; HEAT TRANSFER; LINEARITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RADIATION BALANCE; SOLAR POWER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84858001100     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.12.011     Document Type: Article

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