Summary
CFD model of a solar chimney power plant, validated against the Manzanares prototype and then used on small-scale 3-D models under Tehran weather, optimising chimney diameter, height and turbine pressure drop through energy and exergy analysis. Treating walls as hydrophobic (slip condition) cut shear losses and raised performance by about 11%, and the Discrete Ordinates radiation model matched experiments best.
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