Summary
A small adjustable-geometry solar chimney prototype was built and tested alongside a k–ε CFD model, also checked against the Spanish Manzanares plant data. Output power grows with every geometric dimension, while efficiency improves with chimney height and diameter but falls with collector size and inlet gap; simulations matched measurements within about 1.5% mean error.
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