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Heat transfer enhancement in solar air channel with broken multiple V-type baffle

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In this article, an experimental analysis of the heat transfer behavior and optimum relative width parameter of the solar air channel of aspect ratio of 10.0 with 60° angled broken multiple V-type baffles was conducted.
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This article is published in Case Studies in Thermal Engineering.The article was published on 2016-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 49 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Baffle & Heat transfer enhancement.

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Numerical Study on Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Rectangular Duct with V-Shaped Ribs

TL;DR: In this paper, the Nusselt number (Nu) Friction Factor (f) was used to obtain the thermal performance enhancement factor (TEF) of the inclined cylinder V-shaped rib.
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Numerical Investigation of Flow and the Heat Transfer Performance of an Elliptical Collector Tube Ensuring No Increase in Fluid Contact Area Hence No Increase in Frictional Losses

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a collector that increases the collector efficiency without any significant rise in pumping loss, where the collector length of the pipe is variable as per cone angle of 0, 0.5, and 0.75.
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CFD analysis of the influence of distinct thermal enhancement techniques on the efficiency of double pass solar air heater (DP-SAH)

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the previous research work on double-pass solar air heater (DP-SAH) using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) techniques.
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Influence of notched baffles on aerothermal performance behaviors in a channel

TL;DR: In this article , transverse baffles with rectangular notches or notched baffles (NBs) were applied for improving aerothermal performance in a channel with a constant aspect ratio of 3.75 while notch height-to-baffle height ratio (a/e) ranged from 0.125 to 0.5.

Experimental Analysis & Heat Transfer Enhancement of Solar Air Heater having Different Types of Roughness Element on Absorber Plate

TL;DR: In this article , an experimental comparison on thermal performance of double pass solar air heater has been conducted by using three different absorber plates and at different mass flow rate, three different types of absorber plate have been used.
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Heat transfer enhancement in a tube using delta-winglet twisted tape inserts

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of the oblique delta-winglet twisted tape (O-DWT) arrangement on thermal performance was investigated in a uniform wall heat flux tube.
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Energy and exergy analysis of a new flat-plate solar air heater having different obstacles on absorber plates

TL;DR: In this paper, performance analysis of a flat-plate solar air heater (SAH) with several obstacles (Type I, Type II, Type III and without obstacles) was performed for two air mass flow rates of 0.0074 and 0.52 kg/s.
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Experimental investigations of thermal and flow characteristics of curved trapezoidal winglet type vortex generators

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of a pair of new vortex generators, curved trapezoidal winglet (CTW) has been experimentally investigated and compared with traditional vortex generators using dimensionless factors, which indicated the advantages of using this kind of vortex generators for heat transfer enhancement.
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Experimental investigations on heat transfer and frictional characteristics of a turbulator roughened solar air heater duct

TL;DR: In this article, an experimental investigation has been carried out to study the heat transfer coefficient and friction factor by using artificial roughness in the form of specially prepared inverted U-shaped turbulators on the absorber surface of an air heater duct.
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