Experimental and numerical analysis using CFD technique of the performance of the absorber tube of a solar parabolic trough collector with and without insertion
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...The values of the boundary conditions like operating temperature, mass flow rate of water are taken from the earlier experimental work [13]....
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...Initially the absorber tube without insertion is numerically solved and validated against the same boundary conditions as that of the experimental setup and a very good correlation is obtained between the numerically predicted results and the experimental setup as reported in our previous work [13]....
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