Abstract: When a load profile is given, a thermosyphonic solar water heater’s collector’s azimuthal orientation should be considered as a parameter for maximizing the system’s performance. This is demonstrated ...

Abstract: A considerable increase in the available energy from a double-storage solar water heater (SWH) can be achieved by an open loop control of the transfer flow rate (TFR) between the main water ...

Abstract: The fresh water floating collectors solar pond was investigated both experimentally and theoretically in a previous work, and it is now matched, by simulation, with the heat load requirements ...

Abstract: The effect of small liquid droplets on the flow structure of an axially symmetrical turbulent air jet was studied. The flux of the droplets was measured and correlated by a normal-distribution ...

Abstract: The study of pulsatile flows is relevant to many areas of applications. Typical applications include aerodynamics, biofluid mechanics, wind flows, and gas transport. Transition to turbulence during ...

Abstract: The momentum integral equation is used to study the transient behavior of a Blasius-type boundary layer which is suddenly subjected to uniform blowing or suction. The time required for the ...

Abstract: The question of whether a system is controllable or not is of prime importance in modern control theory and has been actively researched in recent years. While it is a solved problem for ...

Abstract: A simple method is presented for measuring time-average velocity, turbulence intensity, and concentration of droplets in two-phase (air-liquid) turbulent flows.

Abstract: This paper describes the thermodynamic optimization of a class of refrigerators without work input, which are driven by heat transfer from a solar collector. The model consists of a finite-size ...