Research Article
Effect of Parametric Uncertainties, Variations, and Tolerances on Thermohydraulic Performance of Flat Plate Solar Air Heater
Table 2
Ambient and flow parameters.
| Parameter | Values |
| Solar insolation, | Range 500–1000 Wm−2; baseline: 800 Wm−2 | Mass flow rate per unit area of absorber plate, | 0.01–0.06 kgs−1m−2 | Ambient temperature, | 285 K (winter) ± 3 K 310 K (summer) ± 4 K | Wind heat transfer coefficient, (Appendix A) | Winter: range 9–12 Wm−2K−1, baseline: 12 Wm−2K−1 Summer: range 15–20 Wm−2K−1, baseline: 15 Wm−2K−1 |
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