PHOENICS-2010 has been applied to the simulation of heat transfer within a solar panel design on behalf of the LE2M Laboratory of ICAM, Nantes, France. The panel is assumed to be horizontal and consists of three layers; glass, collector and backboard, with air spaces between. The aim of the panel is to warm air through solar irradiation. The glass and collector gather heat by the "greenhouse ef...

The paper first discusses the real fluids circulating in the earth’s crust, and justifies the need to examine the natural convection in a porous medium of a simple pure fluid with properties resembling those near the thermodynamic critical point. The literature on natural convection in a homogenous porous medium between isothermal horizontal plates, the lower one hotter, is then reviewed. Resul...

Hiroki Noguchi 1, Tianhang Liu 1, Makoto Takafuji 1,2 and Hirotaka Ihara 2,3,* 1 Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kumamoto University; 2-39-1 Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan; [email protected] (H.N.); [email protected] (T.L.); [email protected] (M.T.) 2 Kumamoto Institute for Photo-electro Organics (PHOENICS), Kumamoto 862-0901, Japan 3...

The heat transfer analysis of considering heat-generating components with different locations of two side-wall fans in a three-dimensional desktop computer was investigated in this paper. Herein, the well-known computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code of PHOENICS was employed to simulate the dissipative heat transfer in a ventilated enclosure. The SIMPLEST algorithm with the hybrid scheme was ut...

Appropriate ventilation in a classroom is helpful for enhancing air exchange rate and student concentration. This study focuses on the effects of fenestration in a four-story school building by performing numerical simulation of a building when considering indoor and outdoor environments simultaneously. The wind profile function embedded in PHOENICS code was set as the inlet boundary condition ...