Numerical study on the thermal interaction of gas-particle transport for a vortex flow solar reactor

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 133-141

  Ozalp, Nesrin ^a   JayaKrishna, D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Gas particle flow; Two band discrete ordinate radiation model; Vortex flow solar reactor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC (CFD); COMPUTING RESOURCE; DISCRETE ORDINATES; ENTRAINED PARTICLES; EULER-LAGRANGE; EXIT TEMPERATURE; FLOW BEHAVIORS; FLOW PHYSICS; GAS-PARTICLE FLOWS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OUTLET TEMPERATURE; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; PARTICLE LOADING; PARTICLE TEMPERATURE; PATH LINES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RADIATION MODELS; RESIDENCE TIME; SOLAR REACTORS; STATIC TEMPERATURE; THERMAL HYDRAULICS; THERMAL INTERACTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GAS DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SECONDARY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84860298172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2010-90325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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