A numerical investigation of turbulent flows through an artificially roughened solar air heater

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 679-698

  Yadav, Anil Singh ^a,b   Bhagoria, J L ^a  

^a MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Technocrats Institute of Technology   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLAR HEATING; TURBULENT FLOW;

AVERAGE FRICTION FACTORS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ROUGHNESS HEIGHT; SOLAR AIR HEATER; THERMO-HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84892769036     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2013.846187     Document Type: Article

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