... agricultural products within an acceptable period based on the previous studies and therefore, the drying system is recommended to avoid the shortcomings associated with traditional/open sun drying. Table 1 Boundary conditions used in the CFD analysis for air, Perspex glass, glass, plywood, and aluminum...

... that the numerical results are well matched with the experimental data. Based on the above computational study, it is found that helical Bach models have an increase in overall performance compared to the conventional Bach models and helical Savonius model. helical Bach VAWT Savonius model CFD power...

... of ASME for publication in the J ournal of S olar E nergy E ngineering : I ncluding W ind E nergy and B uilding E nergy C onservation . 12 09 2021 02 03 2022 02 03 2022 28 03 2022 photovoltaic phase change material cooling aluminum CFD efficiency energy heat...

... nergy C onservation . 27 01 2020 03 08 2020 03 08 2020 06 10 2020 concentrating solar solar receiver/reactor directly irradiated radiation CFD ray tracing ansys fluent heat transfer simulation solar solar reactor solar receiver Detailed computational...

...-dimensional simulation using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. Performance trials were conducted under three heating options (ETC, gas, and dual) using green chilies at 60 °C. Throughout drying chamber, under all heating modes, the average difference in drying rates ranged from 0.61 to 1.30 kg...

... onservation . thermal stratification phase-change materials fill efficiency heat storage tank CFD conservation energy renewable solar thermodynamics According to the equation of Ri, which was illustrated in detail in Ref. [ 26 ], the calculation deviation of Ri could be obtained...

... fluid dynamics (CFD) with the shear stress transport (SST) κ-omega turbulent model is used in the study. The effects of geometric configurations on the BIPV cell temperature in steady state are evaluated including the sizes of the bottom and top openings and the depth of the back air cavity (or so...

...Miao Weipao; Li Chun; Yang Jun; Yang Yang; Xie Xiaoyun In order to maximize the total power generation of a wind farm, several control strategies based on tilt angle, yaw angle, and cone angle were investigated numerically using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. The full rotor model...

.... Nesrin Ozalp. 13 11 2013 19 08 2014 A detailed three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of a direct absorption solar collector (DAC) is presented. Radiative transfer equation (RTE) is coupled with Navier–Stokes equations and solved numerically to predict...

... according to our CFD studies was experimentally achieved. A Rankine-vortex-like fluid motion in the core region was identified. The spatial evolution of the cyclone flow field was quantified. The effects of the volume flow rate to the reactor efficiency was experimentally extracted and calculated...

.... The latter can be done by hiding the convex part of the blades behind a shield or a vane. The present paper shows the results of two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) computations, indicating a promising increase of the power coefficient from 0.3 to 0.5. The wind inside the rotor should...

... simulation that is presented in this paper. Replicating the experimental prototype, both 2D and 3D models of a three-bladed vertical axis wind turbine were generated. Full transient computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations using mesh deformation capability available in ansys-CFX were run from turbine...

...Siri Sahib S. Khalsa; Clifford K. Ho Rigorous computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes can accurately simulate complex coupled processes within an arbitrary geometry. CFD can thus be a cost-effective and time-efficient method of guiding receiver design and testing for concentrating solar power...

...S. Gómez-Iradi, Ph.D. Student; R. Steijl; G. N. Barakos This paper demonstrates the potential of a compressible Navier–Stokes CFD method for the analysis of horizontal axis wind turbines. The method was first validated against experimental data of the NREL/NASA-Ames Phase VI ( Hand, et al., 2001...

... methodology with the TRNSYS software, without leaving any uncertainty with regard to the weather data. If any other hourly weather data file were to be used, then interpolations would be required in order to satisfy the d t = 1   min time step used in the CFD calculations. This would have added...

... 2006 16 07 2006 wind turbines aerodynamics rotors vortices Navier-Stokes equations Coriolis force plastic flow flow instability wind tunnels CFD Navier-Stokes vortex method prescribed wake coupling NREL phase VI rotor three-dimensional effects three-dimensional polar...

... under vacuum condition inside the solar still. A model for the system was developed and used to optimize the system design. The new model was subjected to a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) structural analysis using MSC/NASTRAN™ FEA software. A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation...