Experimental and numerical investigations on a solar tracking concentrated photovoltaic-thermal system with a novel non-dimensional lattice Boltzmann method

Solar Energy

Volumn 107, Issue , 2014, Pages 145-158

  Su, Yan ^a   Kulacki, Francis A ^b   Davidson, Jane H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrator; NDLBM; Photovoltaic thermal system; Water cooling

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING WATER; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; KINETIC THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

CONCENTRATOR; LATTICE BOLTZMANN EQUATIONS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; MIXED CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFERS; NDLBM; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC THERMALS; WATER COOLING;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; COOLING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84903470709     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2014.05.033     Document Type: Article

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