Thermal performance of a novel minichannel-based solar collector is investigated
numerically. The particular collector consists of a U-shaped flat-tube absorber with a …

This article deals with the application of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to the analysis
of natural convection in the presence of volumetric radiation in a square cavity containing an …

Based on established optical-thermal-electrical-environmental coupling model and
proposed method for calculating electrical efficiency, the effects of tilt angle (θ) on the optical …

The present work analyses a numerical model of compound parabolic collector (CPC) with
tubular receiver to understand the effect of different parameters on the collector's convective …

The numerical investigation of the natural convection in concave and convex parabolic
enclosures with a nanofluid consisting of water and copper nanoparticles is carried out by …

In this paper a methodology is proposed to estimate thermal heat losses inside compound
parabolic collectors (CPC) to be used in designing and validating new collectors' concepts …

This study deals with the effect of volumetric radiation on the natural convection in a square
cavity containing an absorbing, emitting and scattering medium. Numerical simulation has …

In this work, a three-dimensional steady state thermal model is developed for a compound
parabolic concentrator of 2× concentration considering the effects of surface radiation and …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conduct a numerical analysis of transient turbulent
natural convection combined with surface thermal radiation in a square cavity with a local …

A comprehensive survey of the literature in the area of numerical heat transfer (NHT)
published between 2000 and 2009 has been conducted. Due to the immenseness of the …