Volume 14, Issue 2, January 2016, Pages 288–296
Badr Ouhammou1, Mohammed Aggour2, Brahim Daouchi3, and Azdeen Frimane4
1 Department of physics, Physics Laboratory of Condensed Mater, Ibn Tofail University, Faculty of science, Kenitra, Morocco
2 Department of physics, Physics Laboratory of Condensed Mater, Ibn Tofail University, Faculty of science, Kenitra, Morocco
3 Department of physics, Physics Laboratory of Condensed Mater, Ibn Tofail University, Faculty of science, Kenitra, Morocco
4 Department of physics, Physics Laboratory of Condensed Mater, Ibn Tofail University, Faculty of science, Kenitra, Morocco
Original language: English
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The Thermal analysis of flat plate solar water heater is a complex task, because of a large numbers of parameters affecting its performance. In the last years, a lot of studies have been developed, using numerical approaches to describe and analyze the behavior and thermal mechanism of the thermal solar collector. In this paper, we develop a numerical model of the flat plate collector in forced circulation regime. We describe the basis of the model and show the comparisons with other bibliographic model. The main goal of this work is to simulate the efficiencies of the solar collector using an "4n-node model". The results are giving a very good agreement with the literature. The model is used to examine the impact of different parameters, which may affect the performance of the solar collector with single glass cover.
Author Keywords: Solar collector, Simulation, forced convection.
Badr Ouhammou1, Mohammed Aggour2, Brahim Daouchi3, and Azdeen Frimane4
1 Department of physics, Physics Laboratory of Condensed Mater, Ibn Tofail University, Faculty of science, Kenitra, Morocco
2 Department of physics, Physics Laboratory of Condensed Mater, Ibn Tofail University, Faculty of science, Kenitra, Morocco
3 Department of physics, Physics Laboratory of Condensed Mater, Ibn Tofail University, Faculty of science, Kenitra, Morocco
4 Department of physics, Physics Laboratory of Condensed Mater, Ibn Tofail University, Faculty of science, Kenitra, Morocco
Original language: English
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The Thermal analysis of flat plate solar water heater is a complex task, because of a large numbers of parameters affecting its performance. In the last years, a lot of studies have been developed, using numerical approaches to describe and analyze the behavior and thermal mechanism of the thermal solar collector. In this paper, we develop a numerical model of the flat plate collector in forced circulation regime. We describe the basis of the model and show the comparisons with other bibliographic model. The main goal of this work is to simulate the efficiencies of the solar collector using an "4n-node model". The results are giving a very good agreement with the literature. The model is used to examine the impact of different parameters, which may affect the performance of the solar collector with single glass cover.
Author Keywords: Solar collector, Simulation, forced convection.
How to Cite this Article
Badr Ouhammou, Mohammed Aggour, Brahim Daouchi, and Azdeen Frimane, “Theoretical multi node numerical model for thermal solar collector with forced circulation,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 288–296, January 2016.
