Numerical study of heat transfer enhancement by unilateral longitudinal vortex generators inside parabolic trough solar receivers

By Ze-Dong Cheng, Yangyang He, F. Cui. 2012

215 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/608cac1935ec9969ad42b986b4362b065ed05ce0

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. J. Meyer
2. A. Mwesigye
3. Evangelos Bellos
4. Christos Tzivanidis
5. Z. Huan
6. T. Bello‐Ochende
7. Ya-Ling He
8. Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi

In Mechanical Engineering

1. J. Meyer
2. A. Mwesigye
3. Evangelos Bellos
4. Christos Tzivanidis
5. Z. Huan
6. T. Bello‐Ochende
7. Ya-Ling He
8. Y. Qiu

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Evangelos Bellos
2. J. Meyer
3. A. Mwesigye
4. Christos Tzivanidis
5. Z. Huan
6. Y. Qiu
7. Ya-Ling He
8. T. Bello‐Ochende

Citations in the corpus

• Heat transfer enhancement in a parabolic trough solar receiver using longitudinal fins and nanofluids (2016, unknown): “[5] carried out a numerical study of heat transfer enhancement by unilateral longitudinal vortex generators inside PTC receiver.”
• A review of concentrating solar thermal collectors with and without nanofluids (2018, background): “[42] studied the use of longitudinal vortex generators in the down part of the absorber.”
• Heat transfer and thermodynamic performance of a parabolic trough receiver with centrally placed perforated plate inserts (2014, methodology): “[23] analyzed the heat transfer enhancement of a parabolic trough receiver using unilateral longitudinal vortex generators with a realistic non-uniform heat flux boundary condition.”
• Thermal performance and entropy generation analysis of a high concentration ratio parabolic trough solar collector with Cu-Therminol®VP-1 nanofluid (2016, background): “Already a number of studies have shown that significant improvements in receiver thermal performance can be obtained with heat transfer enhancement [12-16].”
• Study on optical and thermal performance of a linear Fresnel solar reflector using molten salt as HTF with MCRT and FVM methods (2015, methodology): “The radiation heat transfer is computed with Stefan–Boltzmann law [37,38].”
• Thermodynamic optimisation of the performance of a parabolic trough receiver using synthetic oil–Al2O3 nanofluid (2015, background): “Several investigations into heat transfer enhancement in parabolic trough receivers have been carried out and their potential for improving the receiver’s heat transfer performance was demonstrated [13-17].”
• Heat transfer and entropy generation in a parabolic trough receiver with wall-detached twisted tape inserts (2016, background): “Several researchers have applied some of the passive heat transfer enhancement techniques to improve the performance of parabolic trough receivers [10,14-16].”