Summary
Laminar natural convection in a solar chimney power plant is modelled as an axisymmetric, dimensionless problem, solving the energy and Navier–Stokes equations by the finite volume method to obtain temperature and velocity fields in both collector and chimney. The code is checked against the de Vahl Davis natural-convection benchmark and against results published by other authors.
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