Heat transfer in inclined rectangular receivers for concentrated solar radiation

✍ Scribed by A. Muftuoglu; E. Bilgen

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 660 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0735-1933
• DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2008.01.002

✦ Synopsis

We study heat transfer in inclined rectangular cavities, which may be used as receivers of concentrated solar radiation. One of the active walls is subject to concentrated solar radiation and the other is kept at constant temperature. Continuity, momentum and energy equations are solved by finite differencecontrol volume numerical method. The relevant governing parameters are: the Rayleigh numbers from 10 3 to10 12 , the cavity aspect ratio, A = L/H from 0.5 to 2, the inclination angle, ϕ from 30 to 90°.We found that the Nusselt number is an increasing function of the Rayleigh number, the aspect ratio and the inclination angle. Based on the computed data a correlation is derived in the form of Nu = f (Ra, A, ϕ).