Correlation for convective heat transfer coefficient of a solar still glass cover with mixed convection consideration
Description
All the experimental data is in the Excel worksheets. It contains data in these files (1) File name - LAT-1: (a) Calculation of local apparent time (LAT), hour angle (in degrees), (b) Calculation of fraction of absorbed solar radiation on outer glass cover (2) File name - Outer hc Glass - 2: Components and ambient temperatures, wind data, solar radiation data, experimental convective heat transfer coefficient hc, (3) File name - Outer hc Glass - 3: (a) Calculation of Rayleigh No. (Ra), Reynolds No. (Re) and Nusselt No. (Nu) ( b) Development of Correlation for Nu (c) Comparison of hc given by various correlations (d) Graphs
Files
Steps to reproduce
Steps to reproduce a similar calculation are sufficiently described in the related manuscript -"Correlation for convective heat transfer coefficient of a solar still glass cover with mixed convection consideration" by Arvind Kumar Kaushal, as well as the data files (self-explanatory). Pre-print version (not peer-reviewed) of the manuscript is available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=5327616
Institutions
- Thapar University