Three dimensional numerical and experimental study of forced convection heat transfer on solar collector surface

Numerical Analysis of Heat Transfer Performance of Flat Plate Solar Collectors

“…Forced convection heat transfer is encountered on the front surface of flat plate solar collector; also wind induced heat losses have a significant effect on the efficiency of solar collectors [16]. The performance of a flat plate solar collector is influenced by the thermal losses from the absorber to the ambient via the glass covers [17][18].…”

Influence of nanofluids on the efficiency of Flat-Plate Solar Collectors (FPSC)

“…Tagliafico et al [11] and Cruz-Peragon et al [12] conducted a comprehensive review on the thermal models, CFD analysis and characterization of flat-plate solar collectors respectively. Other researchers [13,14] studied the heat transfer and thermal characteristics of flat-plate solar collectors.…”

Numerical Investigation of Wind Flow around a Cylindrical Trough Solar Collector

“…Several studies have been carried out on solar collectors such as, wind load on residential and large scale solar collector models [9] which were used as solar water heaters, heat transfer coefficient on flat plate solar collectors and solar cookers [10], thermal modeling of an unglazed flat solar panel collector [11], determining of heat transfer coefficient for forced convection on rectangular solar collectors [12], heat transfer characteristics in the receiver tube of a parabolic trough collector [13], wind flow around a PTC installed in Shiraz [14] and Nusselt number range for the mentioned PTC in Shiraz [15]. On the very track this research has two main purposes: 1) To determine the forces acting on the cylindrical trough collector due to wind and their relationship with reflector surface's orientation; 2) To ascertain the amount of receiver pipe's heat loss.…”