... ) The authors acknowledge the support of the Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Program (Golden, CO) under Grant No. DE_fG36-08GO18154 (Title: “Molten Salt-Carbon Nanotube Thermal Energy Storage For Concentrating Solar Power Systems”). The FE-SEM acquisition was supported by the NSF under Grant No. DBI...

... 10 2011 chemically reactive flow computerised tomography convection finite volume methods flow simulation flow through porous media fuel gasification mass transfer porosity pyrolysis solid-vapour transformations thermochemistry two-phase flow packed bed solar energy...

... be found in Refs. [ 11 12 13 ]. thermal radiation spectroscopy transmittance cerium dioxide solar energy cerium compounds infrared spectra porosity porous materials 29 01 2011 05 04 2011 15 08 2011 15 08 2011 2011 American Society of Mechanical...

... nanoparticle molten salt lithium carbonate potassium carbonate solar energy thermal energy storage phase change material Thermal energy storage (TES) systems at high temperatures are required to improve the operational efficiencies and reliability of solar thermal energy conversion systems...

... media Monte Carlo methods particle size probability radiative transfer thermomechanical treatment packed-bed radiation solar energy gasification chemical reactors Morphological and effective heat/mass transfer properties of complex porous media are needed for the engineering...

... convection flow through porous media mass transfer permeability porosity radiative transfer reticulate porous ceramic computer tomography transport radiation conduction convection Monte Carlo DPLS solar energy thermochemical cycle hydrogen This work has been financially...

... 11 12 13 14 15 16 ) and real ( 17 18 ) porous media by applying the radiative distribution function identification (RDFI) ( 9 17 18 ), Monte Carlo (MC) ( 15 16 ), two-flux ( 10 11 12 ), and discrete ordinate ( 13 ) methods. packed bed radiation semitransparent solar energy...

... by the Heat Transfer Division of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ME- CHANICAL ENGINEERS. Manuscript received by the Heat Transfer Division March 1995; revision received October 1995. Keywords: Heat Exchangers, Radiation, Solar Energy. Associate Technical Editor: M. F. Modest. 228 / Vol. 118, FEBRUARY 1996 objective...

... solution because the spectral absorption coefficient is higher in the region of longer wavelengths where the peak emission by Fe 3 O 4 particles occurs. 01 October 1993 01 June 1994 05 12 2007 Numerical Methods Radiation Solar Energy Abdelrahman M. , Fumeaux P...

... by the Heat Transfer Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER. Manuscript received by the Heat Transfer Division July 1993; revision received November 1993. Keywords: Radiation, Radiation Interactions, Solar Energy, Associate Technical Editor: R. Viskanta. tering distribution and directional...

...- tion, Solar Energy, Transient and Unsteady Heat Transfer. Associate Technical Editor: J. R. Lloyd. 1 Introduction and Problem Formulation Transient natural convection in a side-heated cavity has been studied by a number of authors in the last few years. Patterson and Imberger (1980) found the relevant...

..., Heat Exchangers, Solar Energy. Associate Technical Editor: W. A. Fiveland. written in terms of an overall heat transfer coefficient based on the difference between plate and inlet air temperatures or one based on the logarithmic mean temperature difference as follows. To make the distinction between...

...K. O. Lund 01 September 1992 01 August 1993 23 05 2008 Solar Energy Space Power Systems Transient and Unsteady Heat Transfer A Note on Axial-Flow Sensible-Heat Solar-Dynamic Receivers K. O. Lund1 Nomenclature AF = fluid outlet temperature oscillation amplitude factor...

...N. K. Anand; S. H. Kim; L. S. Fletcher 01 November 1990 01 December 1991 23 05 2008 Electronic Equipment Numerical Methods Solar Energy is 0.72. This gives F = 0.78. For K = 0.25, using Fig. 6, P - 0.78 and F = 0.95. This gives a 22 percent increase in the heat transfer...

... is treated by numerically solving the steady diffusion equation in the air-filled region, and the results are correlated as a function of the spacing and the plate thickness. 12 February 1991 19 August 1991 23 05 2008 Conduction Natural Convection Solar Energy G. A. Moore1 K. G. T...

... overheating, and shape influence effects has been proposed. Enclosure Flows Natural Convection Solar Energy W. M. Lewandowski M. J. Khubeiz Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland Experimental Study of Laminar Natural Convection in Cells With Various Convex...

...S. Venkateswaran; S. T. Thynell; C. L. Merkle Combined convective and radiative heat transfer in an axisymmetric solar thruster is analyzed. In a solar thruster, focused solar energy is converted into thermal energy by volumetric absorption, resulting in a significant increase in the temperature...

... that is optimized. This is a close representation of the practical prob- Contributed by the Heat Transfer Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER. Manuscript received by the Heat Transfer Division September 18, 1989; revision received July 17, 1990. Keywords: Forced Convection, Solar Energy...

...: Natural Convection, Radiation Interactions, Solar Energy. q0 =a,(T- 1)1/2, q2 =aj (l + 1 r(l ±/V3 (2) The Rayleigh number of layer ;' is an eigenvalue of this equa- tion, determined by application of the boundary conditions. An analogous analysis of the heat equation shows that the temperature...

... are performed and compared with the results of previous one-dimensional models. 20 April 1988 20 10 2009 Forced Convection Radiation Interactions Solar Energy S. T. Thynell Assistant Professor. Mem. ASME C. L. Merkle Professor. Mem. ASME Department of Mechanical Engineering...