Experiment and One-dimensional Mathematical Model for the Heat Transfer in a Solar Convective Furnace
01 Jan 2019-
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TL;DR: In this article, an open volumetric air receiver for metal processing was designed and evaluated using the ANSYS-FLUENT computational fluid dynamics tool for uniform and non-uniform heating of porous absorbers.
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