Title

Geometrical and optical analysis of small-sized parabolic trough collector using ray tracing tool SolTrace

Journal title

Archives of Thermodynamics

Yearbook

2023

Volume

vol. 44

Issue

No 3

Affiliation

Singh, Raman Kumar : National Institute of Technology Patna, Department of MechanicalEngineering, Bihar 800005, India ; Chandra, Prakash : National Institute of Technology Patna, Department of MechanicalEngineering, Bihar 800005, India

Authors

Singh, Raman Kumar ; Chandra, Prakash

Keywords

Parabolic trough collectors ; SolTrace ; Monte Carlo ray tracing method ; Nonuniform heat flux distribution ; optical analysis ; Geometrical analysis

Divisions of PAS

Nauki Techniczne

Coverage

35-61

Publisher

The Committee of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences

Date

2023.12.04

Type

Article

Identifier

DOI: 10.24425/ather.2023.147536

Editorial Board

International Advisory Board

J. Bataille, Ecole Central de Lyon, Ecully, France

A. Bejan, Duke University, Durham, USA

W. Blasiak, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

G. P. Celata, ENEA, Rome, Italy

L.M. Cheng, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

M. Colaco, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

J. M. Delhaye, CEA, Grenoble, France

M. Giot, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

K. Hooman, University of Queensland, Australia

D. Jackson, University of Manchester, UK

D.F. Li, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

K. Kuwagi, Okayama University of Science, Japan

J. P. Meyer, University of Pretoria, South Africa

S. Michaelides, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth Texas, USA

M. Moran, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

W. Muschik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

I. Müller, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

H. Nakayama, Japanese Atomic Energy Agency, Japan

A. Nenarokomov, Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia

S. Nizetic, University of Split, Croatia

H. Orlande, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

M. Podowski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA

A. Rusanov, Institute for Mechanical Engineering Problems NAS, Kharkiv, Ukraine

M. R. von Spakovsky, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

A. Vallati, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

H.R. Yang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China