Methodology for Determining the Efficiency of a Solar Air Heater with an Air-Permeable Matrix Absorber Made of Tangled Metal Wire
摘要
An improved design of a solar air heater with an air-permeable matrix absorber made of tangled metal wire is developed as a utility model. A thermal model is proposed for this design of a matrix solar air heater with allowance for its geometric, thermophysical, optical, and operating parameters. To simplify the problem, it is assumed that the air-permeable matrix absorber made of tangled metal wire is a porous material with a thickness δ, a porosity of the absorber p, and a constant thermal conductivity coefficient of the solid skeleton