Numerical study of heat transfer enhancement for a flat plate solar collector by adding metal foam blocks
Other Title(s)
دراسة عددية لتحسين الأداء الحراري لمجمع شمسي ذو الصفيحة المستوية بإضافة كتل من رغوة معدنية
Joint Authors
al-Safi, Muhammad Abd al-Rauf Nimah
Source
Issue
Vol. 23, Issue 12 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.13-32, 20 p.
Publisher
University of Baghdad College of Engineering
Publication Date
2017-12-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
20
Main Subjects
Engineering & Technology Sciences (Multidisciplinary)
Abstract EN
Numerical study has been conducted to investigate the thermal performance enhancement of flat plate solar water collector by integrating the solar collector with metal foam blocks.The flow is assumed to be steady, incompressible and two dimensional in an inclined channel.
The channel is provided with eight foam blocks manufactured form copper.
The Brinkman-Forchheimer extended Darcy model is utilized to simulate the flow in the porous medium and the Navier-Stokes equation in the fluid region.
The energy equation is used with local thermal equilibrium (LTE) assumption to simulate the thermofield inside the porous medium.
The current investigation covers a range of solar radiation intensity at 09:00 AM, 12:00 PM, and 04:00 PM on the 8th of July 2016 under Iraq climate conditions, and a range of Reynolds number of (207 The results show that the insertion of metal foam blocks caused a reduction in the absorber plate temperature and the possible enhancement in the heat transfer coefficient is more than 80% and as a result, the collector exhaust temperature will increase.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Safi, Muhammad Abd al-Rauf Nimah& Ali Muhammad Ali. 2017. Numerical study of heat transfer enhancement for a flat plate solar collector by adding metal foam blocks. Journal of Engineering،Vol. 23, no. 12, pp.13-32.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-796416
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Safi, Muhammad Abd al-Rauf Nimah& Ali Muhammad Ali. Numerical study of heat transfer enhancement for a flat plate solar collector by adding metal foam blocks. Journal of Engineering Vol. 23, no. 12 (Dec. 2017), pp.13-32.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-796416
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Safi, Muhammad Abd al-Rauf Nimah& Ali Muhammad Ali. Numerical study of heat transfer enhancement for a flat plate solar collector by adding metal foam blocks. Journal of Engineering. 2017. Vol. 23, no. 12, pp.13-32.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-796416
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes appendices : p. 24-32
Record ID
BIM-796416