A review of wind loads on heliostats and trough collectors

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue , 2014, Pages 206-221

  Sun, Honghang ^a   Gong, Bo ^b   Yao, Qiang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Heliostat; Trough collector; Wind load

Indexed keywords

HIGHLY ACCURATE; RESEARCH EFFORTS; TROUGH COLLECTOR; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; WIND FLOW; WIND LOAD;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; ASPECT RATIO; HELIOSTATS (INSTRUMENTS); REYNOLDS NUMBER; WIND STRESS;

LOADS (FORCES);

EID: 84893243644     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.01.032     Document Type: Review

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