In the current study, duct of equilateral triangular cross section having V-down ribs with
multiple gaps and turbulence promoters as artificial roughness is analyzed and thermo …

Solar air heater (SAH) has vast applications in agriculture, crop drying and other field. In
solar air heater, air temperature increases at the exit section. Research has worked …

In the present work, a rectangular aluminium absorber duct with perforations on the upper
surface is placed inside the glazed solar air heater duct. Numerical analysis is carried out to …

The current work analyses the thermal (η th) and effective efficiency () of a solar thermal air
collector (STAC) that has an arc-shaped dimple as a roughness geometry on the absorber …

Abstract In this study, Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) model of the Artificial Neural Network
(ANN) is used to predict the thermo-hydraulic performance of a circular perforated absorber …

The present article is focused to improve the thermal performance of solar air heater using
Liquid crystal thermography (LCT) approach, an improved type solar air heater comprises of …

The experimentation has been done using the winglet type vortex generator as a roughness
element above the absorber surface of a solar air heater (SAH) system. Different geometry …

The present investigation is based on the experimental analysis of heat transfer distribution
and friction features of a solar air heater that has a rough absorbent surface with winglet type …

An effort is made to study the performance of a solar air heater having the absorber surface
roughened by providing staggered, twisted, and V-shaped ribs roughness. The liquid crystal …

The current paper reports the impact of variation of ribs' pitch distance in the case of laminar
flow and forced convection heat transfer upon flow characteristics in a rectangular channel …