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Enhancement of solar still by reticular porous media: Experimental investigation with exergy and economic analysis
In this paper, an experimental study with the exergy analysis are performed to investigate the application of a reticular porous insert in a single slope solar still for performance improvement. Two single slope solar ...
Sensitivity Analysis for Entropy Generation in Porous Solar Heat Exchangers by RSM
This paper concerns the entropy generation and sensitivity analyses of fluid flow inside a poroussolar heat exchanger. The governing equations have been solved numerically using a finite volume method. The simulations are ...
The effect of magnetic field on instabilities of heat transfer from an obstacle in a channel
This paper presents forced convective heat transfer in a channel with a built-in square obstacle. The governing equations with the boundary conditions are solved using a finite volume method. The computations were done for ...
Spatial entropy generation analysis for the design improvement of a single slope solar still
In the article, entropy generation is calculated locally by the computational fluid dynamic simulation for the design improvement of a single slope solar still. A numerical approach based on SIMPLE algorithm is utilized ...
NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF NATURAL CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER IN A WAVY WALL CAVITY FILLED WITH A POROUS MEDIUM
In this article, steady natural convection inside a square cavity with wavy surface filled with a porous medium is studied numerically. The temperature for the right wall of the cavity is maintained ...
Enhancement of heat transfer by nanofluids and orientations of the equilateral triangular obstacle
This paper simulates the forced convective heat transfer of Al2O3–water nanofluid over an equilateral triangular obstacle. Computations are performed for different orientations of the triangular obstacle (side, vertex and ...
Effect of fluid-porous interface conditions on steady flow around and through a porous circular cylinde
The purpose of this paper is to implement the numerical analysis based on finite volume
method to compare the effects of stress-jump (SJ) and stress-continuity (SC) conditions on flow
structure around and ...
Heat Transfer Enhancement and Pressure Drop Penalty in Porous Solar Heaters: Numerical Simulations
A comprehensive numerical study is performed on the fluid flow and heat transfer within a porous
solar heater. The effects of porous material on the heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop are
presented ...
A new design of Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube:helical multi-intakevortex generator
An experimental study is conducted to investigate the thermal energy separation in a counter-flow vortex tube. The effects of the cold orifice diameter (dc), the number of tangential intakes (n) and the helical length of ...
Opposition of Magnetohydrodynamicand AL2O3-waternanofluidflow around a vertex facing triangular obstacle
This article is an attempt to enhance the heat transfer rate around anobstacle by nanofluids and
controlthe instabilities of the unsteady flow by Magnetohydrodynamics. The finite volume
method (FVM) is used ...