Fully coupled transient modeling of ceramic foam volumetric solar air receiver

Solar Energy

Volumn 89, Issue , 2013, Pages 122-133

  Wu, Zhiyong ^a   Wang, Zhifeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

CFD; Local thermal non equilibrium model; P1 radiation model; Transient modeling; Volumetric solar air receiver

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATED SOLAR RADIATION; CONCENTRATED SOLAR THERMAL POWER; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FLOWING FLUID; FLUID AND SOLIDS; FULLY-COUPLED; INTERFACIAL HEAT TRANSFER; LOCAL THERMAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM; RADIATION MODELS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; STEP CHANGES; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR; TRANSIENT MODEL; TRANSIENT MODELING;

CERAMIC FOAMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

CERAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FOAM; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84873543574     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2012.12.016     Document Type: Article

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