Three-dimensional numerical study of heat transfer characteristics of parabolic trough receiver

Applied Energy

Volumn 113, Issue , 2014, Pages 902-911

  Wu, Zhiyong ^a   Li, Shidong ^a   Yuan, Guofeng ^a   Lei, Dongqiang ^a   Wang, Zhifeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

CFD; Coupled heat transfer modeling; Parabolic trough receiver; Temperature distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; CONCENTRATED SOLAR; COUPLED HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; PARABOLIC TROUGH RECEIVERS; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT PROPERTIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL STUDIES; WAVELENGTH-DEPENDENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

HEAT TRANSFER;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; IRRADIANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER PLANT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOFTWARE; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84883815360     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.07.050     Document Type: Article

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