Table 5.
Start CFD Fluent | ||||
Geometry | Table 3 | |||
Mesh | Table 4 | |||
Setup | Model | Multiphase | Volume of fluid: 3 | |
Energy | On | |||
Viscose | K-epsilon | |||
Radiation | DTRM | |||
Material | Fluid | Air | ||
Water- liquid | ||||
Water- vapor | ||||
Solid | Glass | |||
Wood | ||||
Steel | ||||
B.C | Glass | Thermal: convection | ||
Radiation: semi- transfer | ||||
Walls | Thermal: convection | |||
Radiation: adiabatic | ||||
Absorber plate | Thermal: heat flux | |||
Radiation: adiabatic | ||||
Solution method | SIMPLE | |||
Solution Initiation | Volume fraction of water& vapor: 0.001,0999 | |||
Inlet Water temperature: 45.8 Co | ||||
Reference pressure: 1 atm | ||||
Reference density: 1.225 kg/m3 | ||||
Run calculation | 8000 iterations: fig. 3.5 | |||
Solution | Calculation complete: solution is converged: fig. 3.6 | |||
Results | Temperature contour | Chapter five | ||
Velocity stream | ||||
Vapor fraction | ||||
End |
All of the sides were set as thermal conductor walls for the boundary conditions at the solar distiller walls.