Summary
Applies entropy generation minimisation to size the collector of a solar chimney power plant, solving laminar natural convection numerically with a projection scheme on a staggered grid. Heat-transfer irreversibility in the collector dominates losses, with the chimney contributing little; an analytical expression shows total entropy generation grows with the square of the Rayleigh number and falls as the collector height-to-radius ratio increases.
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