Correlations for solar air heater duct with dimpled shape roughness elements on absorber plate

Solar Energy

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2852-2861

  Sethi, Muneesh ^a   Varun, ^b   Thakur, N S ^b  

^a SHOOLINI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Dimple shaped; Heat transfer; Nusselt number; Solar air heater

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER PLATES; ARTIFICIAL ROUGHNESS; DIMPLE SHAPED; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FRICTION CHARACTERISTICS; FRICTION FACTOR CORRELATION; FRICTION LOSS; OPERATING PARAMETERS; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; ROUGHNESS HEIGHT; ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; SHAPE ROUGHNESS; SOLAR AIR HEATER;

ASPECT RATIO; DUCTS; FRICTION; HEAT TRANSFER; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

SOLAR HEATING;

ABSORPTION; CORRELATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84865602521     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2012.06.024     Document Type: Article

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