Effect of porous disc receiver configurations on performance of solar parabolic trough concentrator

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 555-571

  Ravi Kumar, K ^a   Reddy, K S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CFD SOFTWARES; FLUID PARAMETERS; FRICTION FACTOR CORRELATION; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; LINE-FOCUS; LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; LOW PRESSURE DROP; MASS FLOW RATE; OPTIMUM CONFIGURATIONS; PARABOLIC TROUGH CONCENTRATORS; RENORMALIZATION GROUP; SOLID DISCS; TROUGH CONCENTRATORS; TURBULENT MODELS; WALL FUNCTION;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NUSSELT NUMBER; SPECIFIC HEAT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84861529044     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-011-0903-8     Document Type: Article

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