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Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Air Flow CFD Modeling in an Industrial Convection Oven; 1 Introduction; 2 Materials and Methods; 2.1 Forced Convection Oven; 2.2 Governing Equations; 2.3 CFD Simulations; 2.4 Validation Method; 3 Results and Discussion; 4 Conclusion; References; 2 CFD Application for the Study of Innovative Working Fluids in Solar Central Receivers; 1 Introduction; 2 Innovative Heat Transfer Fluids in Central Receiver Systems; 2.1 Liquid Metals; 2.2 Innovative Molten Salts; 2.3 Innovative Gas Fluids; 2.4 Particle Suspensions; 2.5 Supercritical Fluids.
3 Supercritical Fluids3.1 Advantages and Disadvantages; 3.2 Applications; 4 CFD Analysis of a Supercritical Fluid Used as Heat Transfer Fluid in a Solar Tower Tubular Receiver; 4.1 Description of the Initial Tubular Receiver Design; 4.2 Supercritical Fluid CFD Analysis Procedure; 4.3 CFD Modelling; 4.4 Validation; 4.5 Initial Operating Conditions of the Tubular Receiver for s-CO2; 4.6 Optimisation of the Receiver Design for s-CO2; 4.7 Conclusions Obtained from the CFD Analysis; 5 Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References.
3 Computational Fluid Dynamics for Thermal Evaluation of Earth-to-Air Heat Exchanger for Different Climates of Mexico1 Physical Model; 2 Mathematical Model; 3 Methodology; 4 Results and Discussion; 5 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 4 CFD Modeling of a Parabolic Trough Receiver of Different Cross Section Shapes; 1 Introduction; 2 Solar Heat Flux Calculation; 2.1 Radius Number Sensitivity; 2.2 Validation; 3 CFD Numerical Simulation; 3.1 Geometry Configuration and Mesh; 3.2 Assumptions and Boundary Conditions; 3.3 Numerical Simulation; 3.4 CFD Simulation Results; 4 Conclusion.
3 Low Mach Preconditioning3.1 Low Mach Flows; 3.2 Finite Volume Method; 3.3 Preconditioning Matrix; 3.4 Discretization of Preconditioning Equations; 3.5 Time-Marching Scheme; 3.6 Numerical Examples; 3.6.1 Nozzle Flow; 3.6.2 Flow Through a Channel with a Bump; 4 Computation of Free Convective Flows; 4.1 Finite Volume Method; 4.2 Preconditioning Method; 4.3 Dual Time-Stepping Scheme; 4.3.1 Explicit Scheme; 4.3.2 Implicit Scheme; 4.3.3 Residual Smoothing; 4.4 Numerical Examples; 5 Geometric and Algebraic Multigrid Techniques; 5.1 Geometric Methods; 5.1.1 Full Approximation Scheme.
3 Supercritical Fluids3.1 Advantages and Disadvantages; 3.2 Applications; 4 CFD Analysis of a Supercritical Fluid Used as Heat Transfer Fluid in a Solar Tower Tubular Receiver; 4.1 Description of the Initial Tubular Receiver Design; 4.2 Supercritical Fluid CFD Analysis Procedure; 4.3 CFD Modelling; 4.4 Validation; 4.5 Initial Operating Conditions of the Tubular Receiver for s-CO2; 4.6 Optimisation of the Receiver Design for s-CO2; 4.7 Conclusions Obtained from the CFD Analysis; 5 Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References.
3 Computational Fluid Dynamics for Thermal Evaluation of Earth-to-Air Heat Exchanger for Different Climates of Mexico1 Physical Model; 2 Mathematical Model; 3 Methodology; 4 Results and Discussion; 5 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 4 CFD Modeling of a Parabolic Trough Receiver of Different Cross Section Shapes; 1 Introduction; 2 Solar Heat Flux Calculation; 2.1 Radius Number Sensitivity; 2.2 Validation; 3 CFD Numerical Simulation; 3.1 Geometry Configuration and Mesh; 3.2 Assumptions and Boundary Conditions; 3.3 Numerical Simulation; 3.4 CFD Simulation Results; 4 Conclusion.
3 Low Mach Preconditioning3.1 Low Mach Flows; 3.2 Finite Volume Method; 3.3 Preconditioning Matrix; 3.4 Discretization of Preconditioning Equations; 3.5 Time-Marching Scheme; 3.6 Numerical Examples; 3.6.1 Nozzle Flow; 3.6.2 Flow Through a Channel with a Bump; 4 Computation of Free Convective Flows; 4.1 Finite Volume Method; 4.2 Preconditioning Method; 4.3 Dual Time-Stepping Scheme; 4.3.1 Explicit Scheme; 4.3.2 Implicit Scheme; 4.3.3 Residual Smoothing; 4.4 Numerical Examples; 5 Geometric and Algebraic Multigrid Techniques; 5.1 Geometric Methods; 5.1.1 Full Approximation Scheme.