The objective of this paper is to review the different techniques, which have been used to
enhance the heat transfer rate in heat exchanger devices such as solar air heater, cooling …

The recent studies on thermal performance enhancement of the flat plate solar air collectors
are critically reviewed primarily regarding the absorber surface modifications, multiple …

In this paper, the thermo-hydraulic performance of a solar air heater (SAH) duct roughened
with discrete D-shaped ribs is numerically investigated using ANSYS Fluent 2020 R2. The …

The use of solar air heaters (SAH) for the collection and effective utilization of solar
radiations for thermal applications is widely reported in the literature. The current article …

The thermo-hydraulic characteristics of a solar air heater with quarter-circular ribs on the
absorber plate are studied numerically. A comparison of the three different arrangements of …

Solar drying technologies and applications in the last 10 years have been summarized and
discussed in this article. A wide scope of the main elements that make this technique …

A solar air collector (SAC) is a main device of a solar-thermal air system, which can absorb
solar radiation and transfer the absorbed thermal energy to the air. This paper presents a …

For various heating applications like space heating, timber seasoning, food drying, HVAC
processes, water desalination processes, etc., where a low to medium heating source is …

Lower thermal performance of conventional solar air heaters (SAH) can be enhanced by
implementing small sized roughness elements on the air-flow side of the absorber plate …

An experimental and numerical study of turbulent convective heat transfer in a solar air
heater duct with winglet-type vortex generators (WVGs) placed on the absorber plate is …