Milind S. Patil^a,*, Ramchandra S. Jahagirdar^b, Eknath R. Deore^a,†

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.3, No.3, pp. 1-5, 2012, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v3.3.3008

Abstract Convection heat loss inevitably occurs in receivers of high concentrating solar concentrators. All the concentrators are need to be tack during the operation and hence the position of the receiver is changing continually. The angle of the receiver axis will then play an important role in the heat loss. Few researches were reported for the hemispherical cavity receivers numerically. The paper presented here is an experimental investigation natural convection heat loss from hemispherical cavity receiver. Cavity receiver of diameter 540 mm was tested. It is observed that the heat loss was minimum for 90° and maximum for 0°. More >

Yiqiang Li¹, Liang Ma², Zhiqiang Yang³, Xiaofei Guan⁴, Yufeng Nie¹, Zihao Yang^{1, 2}

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.115, No.1, pp. 1-24, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2018.115.001

Abstract This paper is devoted to the homogenization and statistical multiscale analysis of a transient heat conduction problem in random porous materials with a nonlinear radiation boundary condition. A novel statistical multiscale analysis method based on the two-scale asymptotic expansion is proposed. In the statistical multiscale formulations, a unified linear homogenization procedure is established and the second-order correctors are introduced for modeling the nonlinear radiative heat transfer in random perforations, which are our main contributions. Besides, a numerical algorithm based on the statistical multiscale method is given in details. Numerical results prove the accuracy and efficiency of our method for multiscale… More >