CFD Analysis of Heat Transfer through Artificially Roughened Solar Duct
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGY - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 9
Abstract
The thermal performance of solar air heater is generally poor due to low heat transfer coefficient between the absorber plate and air flowing in the duct. In order to improve the thermal performance artificial roughness is provided on the underside of absorber plate due to which turbulence is created in the heat transfer zone and ultimately performance of solar air heater improves considerably. This paper presents the study of heat transfer in a rectangular duct of a solar air heater having triangular rib roughness on the absorber plate by using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The effect of Reynolds number on Nusselt number was investigated to study the heat transfer, friction factor and flow characteristics in a solar air heater having triangular rib roughness on the absorber plate. The computations based on the finite volume method with the SIMPLE algorithm have been conducted for the air flow in terms of Reynolds numbers ranging from 4000 – 20000 and p/e (4 to 20)
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Suman Saurav#1, V. N. Bartaria
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