Design of a self-adjusted jet impingement system for cooling of photovoltaic cells

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 48-57

  Rahimi, Masoud ^a   Valeh E Sheyda, Peyvand ^a   Parsamoghadam, Mohammad Amin ^a   Masahi, Mohammad Moein ^b   Alsairafi, Ammar Abdulaziz ^c  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Industrial Management Center for Applied Science and Technology   (Iran)

^c KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

CFD modeling; Cooling; Photovoltaic cell; Solar; Wind

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; CYTOLOGY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; TURBINES; WIND;

AIRFLOW PATTERNS; CFD MODELING; COOLING DEVICES; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; FLOW DISTRIBUTION; JET IMPINGEMENT; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SOLAR;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 84898624063     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2014.03.053     Document Type: Article

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