Heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop penalty in porous solar heat exchangers: A sensitivity analysis

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 103, Issue , 2015, Pages 726-738

  Rashidi, S ^a   Bovand, M ^a   Esfahani, J A ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Darcy number; Optimization; Porous solar heat exchanger; Response surface methodology

Indexed keywords

HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; OPTIMIZATION; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; RADIATION EFFECTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR HEATING; SOLAR WATER HEATERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COMBINED CONVECTION RADIATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; DARCY NUMBER; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; INFLUENCE PARAMETER; PRESSURE DROP RATIO; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 84937202569     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2015.07.019     Document Type: Article

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