Radiative heat transfer analysis in plasmonic nanofluids for direct solar thermal absorption

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Bong Jae ^a   Park, Keunhan ^d   Walsh, Timothy ^b   Xu, Lina ^c  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b The University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SOLUTIONS; BROAD BANDS; COLLECTIVE MOTIONS; DIRECT SOLAR; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; INCIDENT RADIATION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; NANOFLUIDS; NOVEL CONCEPT; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PARTICLE VOLUME FRACTIONS; PLASMON RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; PLASMONIC; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; SOLAR ABSORPTION; SOLAR THERMAL COLLECTOR; SURFACE PLASMONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSHELLS; PLASMONS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WATER ABSORPTION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84863378554     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4005756     Document Type: Article

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