Summary
A wall-mounted solar chimney power plant with a vertical collector, intended for tall urban buildings, is modelled in FLUENT across different collector heights, widths and air-gap depths. Airflow and output grow with each dimension but with diminishing gains; efficiency depends mainly on collector height, and airflow peaks at a height-to-width ratio of about 20.
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