A numerical study of parabolic trough receiver with nonuniform heat flux and helical screw-tape inserts

By Xingwang Song, G. Dong, Fangyuan Gao, X. Diao, Liqing Zheng, Fuyun Zhou. 2014

174 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Mechanical Engineering

1. Evangelos Bellos
2. Christos Tzivanidis
3. J. Meyer
4. A. Mwesigye
5. Z. Huan

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Evangelos Bellos
2. Christos Tzivanidis
3. J. Meyer
4. A. Mwesigye
5. Z. Huan
6. Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi
7. Mohammad Reza Safaei
8. Marjan Goodarzi

Citations in the corpus

• Thermal performance and entropy generation analysis of a high concentration ratio parabolic trough solar collector with Cu-Therminol®VP-1 nanofluid (2016, background): “[18] studied the performance of a parabolic trough receiver with a helical screw tape insert.”
• Heat transfer enhancement in a parabolic trough solar receiver using longitudinal fins and nanofluids (2016, unknown): “[4] analyzed the heat transfer enhancement of PTC receiver with non-uniform heat flux and helical screw-tape inserts; their results indicate that the maximum temperature on the outer surface”
• A review of concentrating solar thermal collectors with and without nanofluids (2018, methodology): “[34] examined the use of helical screw tape insert, and they found extremely high-pressure drop increase (up to 23 times).”