https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159201002
Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Natural Convection in Open-Ended Channels with Application to Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Systems
1 The University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
2 Centre d’Energétique et de Thermique de Lyon (CETHIL), CNRS-INSA-Univ. Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
a Corresponding author: v.timchenko@unsw.edu.au
Published online: 6 May 2015
Numerical and experimental investigations of the flow and heat transfer in open-ended channel formed by the double skin façade have been undertaken in order to improve understanding of the phenomena and to apply it to passive cooling of building integrated photovoltaic systems. Both uniform heating and non-uniform heating configurations in which heat sources alternated with unheated zones on both skins were studied. Different periodic and asymmetric heating modes have been considered for the same aspect ratio 1/15 of wall distance to wall height and for periodicity 1/15 and 4/15 of heated/unheated zones and heat input, 220 W/m2. In computational study three dimensional transient LES simulation was carried out. It is shown that in comparison to uniformly heating configuration, non-uniformly heating configuration enhances both convective heat transfer and chimney effect.
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