| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 111, 2019
CLIMA 2019 Congress
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| Article Number | 03047 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | High Energy Performance and Sustainable Buildings | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911103047 | |
| Published online | 13 August 2019 | |
Preliminary numerical studies conducted for the numerical model of a real transpired solar collector with integrated phase changing materials
1 Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Faculty of Engineering for Building Services, 021407, Bucharest, Romania
2 CAMBI Research Centre, 021407, Bucharest, Romania
3 Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400114, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
* Corresponding author: andrei.s.bejan@gmail.org
Solar energy has a great potential to reduce the worldwide energy consumptions thus mitigating the impact of building systems on the global warming. Transpired solar collectors (TSC) are cost-effective solutions and phase changing materials (PCM) implemented within them could store the energy during the periods when solar radiation is available. The current paper is part of comprehensive numerical studies and analyses the mesh independency studies conducted in ANSYS Fluent with SST k-Ω viscous model and the numerical model preliminary results (3.3ºC rise in temperature). The results emphasise that the 5 million cells mesh is the feasible option for the studied case.
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