Performance analysis of a parabolic trough solar collector with non-uniform solar flux conditions

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 82, Issue , 2015, Pages 236-249

  Wang, Yanjuan ^a,b   Liu, Qibin ^a   Lei, Jing ^c   Jin, Hongguang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Circumferential temperature difference; Parabolic trough solar collector; Solar energy flux distribution; Stress distribution; Three dimensional numerical simulations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; STRESS CONCENTRATION; THERMAL STRESS; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

DIRECT NORMAL IRRADIANCES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION METHOD; PARABOLIC TROUGH SOLAR COLLECTORS; PARABOLIC-TROUGH SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; SOLAR ENERGY FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84918806698     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2014.11.055     Document Type: Article

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