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Sandeep Patel August 16, 2011 19:03

Solar Updraft Tower
 
Hey..I am doing a research on solar updraft tower and i want to use ANSYS CFX to simulate the solar updraft tower. I am having problems with the boundary conditions.. For the inlet i have used the boundary type OPENING with a defined value of static pressure. The outlet i have used the boundary type OUTLET with static pressure as 0Pa.For the base, the collector wall and the chimney wall i have used the boundary type WALL with mass and momentum as free slip wall and heat transfer as adiabatic.. For the domain i have used air ideal gas with buoyancy model as buoyant and i have specified the gravity and the reference density as well as the reference location. for the heat transfer model i have used total energy and the turbulence model as laminar. i also have provided the value for insolation for the collector..Can someone help me with the boundary conditions for the Solar Updraft Tower...

ghorrocks August 16, 2011 19:48

Sounds OK so far. Note that the flow probably is turbulent so your selection of a laminar model is probably wrong. What is not working in yuour model?

Sandeep Patel August 16, 2011 20:21

I am trying to compare my CFX results to a real experimental model results but the temperature change in the solar updraft tower is not matching. So, i am thinking that something is wrong with my boundary conditions or domain conditions.

ghorrocks August 17, 2011 19:29

Sounds reasonable. But as I have no idea of the experiment you are comparing to or the details of how you set up your simulation I cannot see how we are going to be much help. You are going to have to figure this one out.

Sandeep Patel August 17, 2011 19:42

I am trying to compare my results with this results from this journal paper (Experimental and theoretical performance of a demonstration solar chimney model-part 2: Experimental and theoretical results and economic analysis) by N. Pasumarthi and S. A. Sherif.

atit December 21, 2011 04:40

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Originally Posted by Sandeep Patel (Post 320381)
Hey..I am doing a research on solar updraft tower and i want to use ANSYS CFX to simulate the solar updraft tower. I am having problems with the boundary conditions.. For the inlet i have used the boundary type OPENING with a defined value of static pressure. The outlet i have used the boundary type OUTLET with static pressure as 0Pa.For the base, the collector wall and the chimney wall i have used the boundary type WALL with mass and momentum as free slip wall and heat transfer as adiabatic.. For the domain i have used air ideal gas with buoyancy model as buoyant and i have specified the gravity and the reference density as well as the reference location. for the heat transfer model i have used total energy and the turbulence model as laminar. i also have provided the value for insolation for the collector..Can someone help me with the boundary conditions for the Solar Updraft Tower...

At the inlet, I used 0 Pa as the total pressure and the flow properties seems reasonable. You should try it. Good luck.

weli December 25, 2018 16:25

CFD simulation of solar chimney power plant in two dimension aspect the boundary conditions may be taken as:
the glass roof should be given convection with heat transfer coefficient of 6 W/m2.C, inlet and outlet as zero pressure and inlet and outlet portion with 0 pressure. and the ground as heat flux of 600 W/m2. but the program gives the AMS error and the computer locks.

ghorrocks December 26, 2018 04:43

Sorry I do not understand. Is this a question or a statement?


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