...°C) and low- (∼100–400°C) temperature applications. Bench-scale experiments were conducted, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations were performed to verify models and improve understanding of relevant features and processes that impact the performance of the radial thermocline storage...

...: concentrating solar, solar receiver/reactor, directly-irradiated, radiation, CFD, ray tracing, ANSYS Fluent NOMENCLATURE a, b, c barycentric coordinate locations A area E thermal energy H irradiation k thermal conductivity n integer number Nrays total number of rays in ray tracing model M integer number q heat...

...Design, Construction and CFD Modeling of a Banana-Solar Dryer with Double Pass Solar Air Collector Philemon Mutabilwa and Kevin N. Nwaigwe Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Botswana Gaborone, Botswana nwaigwek@ub.ac.bw; kevin.nwaigwe@mopipi.ub.bw Abstract A work on the design...

..., especially when the rotor design and optimization is required. Keyword: Wave Energy Converter, unidirectional rotation, CFD 1. Introduction In alternative energy sources, wave energy is abundant in the earth's resources, and the wave energy is widely distributed. It is estimated that the global wave energy...

... Thermal energy storage natural convection phase change material CFD PARAMETRIC INVESTIGATION OF THE MELTING AND SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS IN AN ENCAPSULATED SPHERICAL CONTAINER Antonio Ramos Archibolda,b,e antonioramos@mail.usf.edu Muhammad M Rahmana,b, mmrahman@usf.edu D. Yogi Goswamia,c...

... 13 03 2012 1 Copyright © 2011 by ASME PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF DIFFUSER-AUGMENTED COMPOSITE MARINE CURRENT TURBINE USING CFD Jifeng Wang, Janusz Piechna, Blake Gower, Norbert Müller Turbomachinery lab, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 USA ABSTRACT A wound composite...

... to investigate the performance of these turbines. The numerical approach was performed using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in a free stream of water with various hydrodynamic flow conditions. Static torque and extracted power are calculated at different rotating speeds in a free stream with various...

... active flow control plasma actuator CFD 1 Copyright © 2010 by ASME Proceedings of the 4 th International Conference on Energy Sustainability ICOES4 May 17-22, 2010, Phoenix, Arizona, USA ES2010-90483 NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF SEPARATION CONTROL FOR WIND TURBINE AIRFOIL Andreas Gross, Sasidhar...

... the reactor. Our study shows that N-plug flow reactors in series is the best approach in predicting the flow dynamics based on the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. We have studied the residence time distribution using CFD by two different methods. The residence time distribution characteristics...

... for the flowing field of the ejector. In this study, the supersonic steam ejector was simulated using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics). Flowing field of the ejector was analyzed by using different state equations. The results shows that performance of the ejector was underestimated under the ideal gas model...