Experimental and CFD Investigations on Full Volumetric Flow to a Solar Flat Plate-Glass Collector
Abstract
In the project solar flat-plate glass collector, a new type of solar collector will be developed which, simplified, consists of 4 glass plates. As subgoal of the project the full volumetric flow and heat transfer in the fluid layer and the collector filling have been examined experimentally and numerically. The experimental setup and the CFD settings are presented. By comparison of experimental data and CFD results the simulation results were checked. It appeared that the CFD simulations are able to model the flow well, so an optimization of the flow and heat transfer in the layer can be carried out numerically.
Keywords
Glass collector, Fluid distribution, Cfd, Validation, Filling process