Yashar Aryanfar; Jihen Mahdhi; Ons Ghriss; Humberto García Castellanos; Abdallah Bouabidi; Ali Keçebaş · 10.30638/eemj.2025.118 https://doi.org/10.30638/eemj.2025.118
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal
OPTIMIZING MESH CONFIGURATIONS IN SOLAR CHIMNEY SYSTEMS: A COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) BASED APPROACH FOR ENHANCED ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND PERFORMANCE Yashar Aryanfar; Jihen Mahdhi; Ons Ghriss; Humberto Garcia Castellanos; Abdallah Bouabidi; Ali Kecebas Numerical CFD investigation of how mesh density affects predicted temperature, velocity and pressure fields in a solar chimney power plant. Four grids were compared against experimental measurements; the two finest stayed within roughly 4% of the data and better captured flow and thermal gradients near the chimney axis, and the authors suggest adaptive refinement to keep computing costs down.
Numerical / CFD
Solar chimney power plant
2025
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal
yes
2025-01-01 12:00:00 00002049
optimizing mesh configurations in solar chimney systems: a computational fluid dynamics (cfd) based approach for enhanced energy efficiency and performance
2025
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal
Yashar Aryanfar; Jihen Mahdhi; Ons Ghriss; Humberto García Castellanos; Abdallah Bouabidi; Ali Keçebaş
10.30638/eemj.2025.118
Summary
Numerical CFD investigation of how mesh density affects predicted temperature, velocity and pressure fields in a solar chimney power plant. Four grids were compared against experimental measurements; the two finest stayed within roughly 4% of the data and better captured flow and thermal gradients near the chimney axis, and the authors suggest adaptive refinement to keep computing costs down.
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