Study of the Turbulence Model Effect on the Airflow Characteristics Inside a Solar Chimney Power Plant

Summary

Five turbulence models are compared in a two-dimensional steady CFD simulation of a solar chimney power plant built in ANSYS Fluent, examining predicted velocity, temperature, pressure and turbulence fields. The choice of model clearly changes the results, and validation against experimental measurements from an earlier pilot setup is used to identify the most suitable one.

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