Summary
Simulates airflow and heat transfer in a solar chimney power plant, taking the Manzanares prototype in Spain as the test geometry. Mass, momentum and energy conservation were solved with a custom iterative scheme and separately in FLUENT; both matched the prototype's measurements reasonably well, and pressure, velocity and temperature fields inside the collector are mapped for several irradiance levels.
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