Dynamic and Thermal Study of the Three-Dimensional Flow in a Flat Plate Solar Collector with Transversal Baffles

Mohammed Amine Amraoui; Khaled Aliane

doi:10.15866/ireme.v8i6.1623

Dynamic and Thermal Study of the Three-Dimensional Flow in a Flat Plate Solar Collector with Transversal Baffles

Mohammed Amine Amraoui^(1*), Khaled Aliane⁽²⁾

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/ireme.v8i6.1623

Abstract

The objective of present study is to perform CFD simulation of flat plate collector with air flow. The CFD model was validated with experimental results. Based on the results of the experiments CFD analysis of air on solar flat plate collector is carried out. There are certain limitations for experimental results thus data at each and every point cannot be obtained, hence CFD is the tool which handles complex situations where experimental is not applicable because of limitations and cost effectiveness problem. The overall aim of this work is to understand the flow and temperature distribution of air through solar flat plate collector. A 3D model of the studied solar collector is modeled by ANSYS Workbench and the mesh was created in ANSYS ICEM. The results were obtained using ANSYS FLUENT and ANSYS CFX.
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Keywords

Flat Plate Solar Collector; Fluid Flow; k_ε Turbulent Model; CFD

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