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  1 - The Effect of Number of Steps on the Performance of a Cascade Type Solar Still
  Nader Rahbar فاطمه علی پناه
  The purpose of this study is to simulate fluid flow in a weir-type cascade solar still, assuming steady-state and air being the ideal gas and incompressible. The commercial software FLUENT is used for numerical simulation of the process. SIMPLE algorithm is used to calc More

  The purpose of this study is to simulate fluid flow in a weir-type cascade solar still, assuming steady-state and air being the ideal gas and incompressible. The commercial software FLUENT is used for numerical simulation of the process. SIMPLE algorithm is used to calculate the relationship between pressure and velocity. In addition, first order upwind method is applied for separation of displacement and interpolation of pressure. Numerical simulations are performed for Solar Still with four to ten and also with twelve steps. Results of investigations on a Solar Still with different number of steps, in which the height of the steps is constant value of 2 cm, show that increasing the number of steps causes to increase water production up to eight steps. Furthermore, the highest rate of water production was 232 ml/m3hr for solar still with eight steps. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Numerical Study on the Effect of dimension of Steps on the Performance of a Cascade Solar Still
  Nader Rahbar فاطمه علی پناه
  The purpose The purpose of this study is to simulate fluid flow in a weir-type cascade solar still, assuming steady-state and air being the ideal gas and incompressible. The commercial software FLUENT is used for numerical simulation of the process. SIMPLE algorithm is More

  The purpose The purpose of this study is to simulate fluid flow in a weir-type cascade solar still, assuming steady-state and air being the ideal gas and incompressible. The commercial software FLUENT is used for numerical simulation of the process. SIMPLE algorithm is used to calculate the relationship between pressure and velocity. In addition, first order upwind method is applied for separation of displacement and interpolation of pressure. The effective parameters on unit productivity are the distance between glass surface and water, height of solar still, the number of vortexes and convective heat transfer coefficient. Results of investigations on a Solar Still with different height of steps, indicated that the productivity increases with increasing the height of stairs. Although, it should be noted that in each model with specific number of stairs there is an upward-downward trend; in other words, there is an optimum point in each model with specific number of stairs. Also, the still in the specific model of six-stairs with the height of 3.5 cm of stairs had maximum productivity. Manuscript profile
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  3 - Experimental studies on the convective heat transfer of MgO–water nanofluid
  mohammad ghavidel Seyfolah Saedodin
  The present study aimed to investigate the convective heat transfer coefficient of nanofluids containing magnesium oxide nanoparticles in water-based fluid in the exchanger plates have been carried out. Tests on the volume fraction of (0.005, 0.01, 0.015and 0.02) were u More

  The present study aimed to investigate the convective heat transfer coefficient of nanofluids containing magnesium oxide nanoparticles in water-based fluid in the exchanger plates have been carried out. Tests on the volume fraction of (0.005, 0.01, 0.015and 0.02) were used in this study have Ast.nanvzrh which has a diameter of 20 nm. Also the results show that with increasing fraction nanofluid volume, heat transfer coefficient and thus increases the heat transfer. Also heat transfer nanofluids% increase in volume fraction of 0.02 to 0.005 respectively 52% and 4.3% is on. Manuscript profile