Natural convection heat transfer in façade integrated solar concentrators

However there is no relationship in the literature to describe the natural convection heat transfer in the asymmetric enclosed air gap formed by a façade integrated concentrator as described. Hence, in this study, a relationship to describe the natural convection heat transfer in such enclosures was developed using an experimentally validated computational fluid dynamics analysis. The relationship shows that the heat transfer, expressed in terms on the Nusselt number, is strongly dependent on the Rayleigh number and the aspect ratio (A/H), and can be expressed in the form Nu = a Rab (A/H)c.