Modular object-oriented methodology for the resolution of molten salt storage tanks for CSP plants

[1]  P. Sagaut.  Large Eddy Simulation for Incompressible Flows , 2001 .

[2]  Oriol Lehmkuhl Barba,et al.  Modular simulation of buildings with an object-oriented tool , 2011 .

[3]  Oriol Lehmkuhl,et al.  Assessment of the symmetry-preserving regularization model on complex flows using unstructured grids , 2012 .

[4]  F. Nicoud,et al.  Subgrid-Scale Stress Modelling Based on the Square of the Velocity Gradient Tensor , 1999 .

[5]  P. Moin,et al.  A dynamic subgrid‐scale eddy viscosity model , 1990 .

[6]  Frank P. Incropera,et al.  Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer , 1981 .

[7]  Roberto Gabbrielli,et al.  Optimal Design of a Molten Salt Thermal Storage Tank for Parabolic Trough Solar Power Plants , 2009 .

[8]  D. Gray,et al.  The validity of the boussinesq approximation for liquids and gases , 1976 .

[9]  A. Gorobets,et al.  DNS and RANS modelling of a turbulent plane impinging jet , 2012 .

[10]  Jörg Imberger,et al.  Unsteady natural convection in a rectangular cavity , 1980, Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

[11]  E. Papanicolaou,et al.  Transient natural convection in a cylindrical enclosure at high Rayleigh numbers , 2002 .

[12]  F. X. Trias,et al.  A Self-Adaptive Strategy for the Time Integration of Navier-Stokes Equations , 2011 .

[13]  Zhifeng Wang,et al.  Sensitivity analysis of the numerical study on the thermal performance of a packed-bed molten salt thermocline thermal storage system , 2012 .

[14]  Assensi Oliva,et al.  Numerical Study of the Transient Cooling Process of Water Storage Tanks under Heat Losses to the Environment , 2009 .

[15]  A. Ghajar,et al.  NUMERICAL STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF INLET GEOMETRY ON STRATIFICATION IN THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE , 1991 .

[16]  J. Pacheco,et al.  DEVELOPMENT OF A MOLTEN-SALT THERMOCLINE THERMAL STORAGE SYSTEM FOR PARABOLIC TROUGH PLANTS , 2001 .

[17]  T. Hughes,et al.  Large Eddy Simulation and the variational multiscale method , 2000 .

[18]  G. Grötzbach,et al.  Spatial resolution requirements for direct numerical simulation of the Rayleigh-Bénard convection , 1983 .

[19]  Oriol Lehmkuhl,et al.  Flow dynamics in the turbulent wake of a sphere at sub-critical Reynolds numbers , 2013 .

[20]  F. X. Trias,et al.  Turbulent natural convection in a differentially heated cavity of aspect ratio 5 filled with non-participating and participating grey media , 2011 .

[21]  J. Niemela,et al.  Erratum: Turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers , 2000, Nature.

[22]  Roel Verstappen.  When Does Eddy Viscosity Damp Subfilter Scales Sufficiently? , 2011, J. Sci. Comput..

[23]  S. Garimella,et al.  Molten-salt thermal energy storage in thermoclines under different environmental boundary conditions , 2010 .

[24]  A. Conejo,et al.  Optimal offering strategy for a concentrating solar power plant , 2012 .

[25]  A. Oliva,et al.  Direct numerical simulation of a differentially heated cavity of aspect ratio 4 with Rayleigh numbers up to 1011 – Part II: Heat transfer and flow dynamics , 2010 .

[26]  C. Pérez-Segarra,et al.  Direct Numerical Simulation of the flow over a sphere at Re = 3700 , 2009 .

[27]  Oriol Lehmkuhl Barba,et al.  Energy simulation of buildings with a modular object-oriented tool , 2011 .

[28]  Felix Tellez,et al.  Central Receiver System Solar Power Plant Using Molten Salt as Heat Transfer Fluid , 2008 .

[29]  Michael A. Leschziner,et al.  Stability bounds for explicit fractional-step schemes for the Navier–Stokes equations at high Reynolds number , 2009 .

[30]  C. Pérez-Segarra,et al.  Unsteady numerical simulation of the cooling process of vertical storage tanks under laminar natural convection , 2009 .

[31]  Jan Schulte-Fischedick,et al.  CFD Analysis of the Cool Down Behaviour of Molten Salt Thermal Storage Systems , 2008 .

[32]  William A. Beckman,et al.  Performance study of one-dimensional models for stratified thermal storage tanks , 1993 .

[33]  Jochen Fröhlich,et al.  Highly resolved large-eddy simulation of separated flow in a channel with streamwise periodic constrictions , 2005, Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

[34]  M. Soria,et al.  Virtual prototyping of storage tanks by means of three-dimensional CFD and heat transfer numerical simulations , 2004 .

[35]  R. Borrell,et al.  TermoFluids: A new Parallel unstructured CFD code for the simulation of turbulent industrial problems on low cost PC Cluster , 2009 .

[36]  K. J. Maloney,et al.  A comparison study of one-dimensional models for stratified thermal storage tanks , 1989 .

[37]  A. Veldman,et al.  Symmetry-preserving discretization of turbulent flow , 2003 .

[38]  Parviz Moin,et al.  An improvement of fractional step methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations , 1991 .

[39]  Shahab Alizadeh,et al.  An experimental and numerical study of thermal stratification in a horizontal cylindrical solar storage tank , 1999 .

[40]  Dongjoo Kim,et al.  A Second-Order Time-Accurate Finite Volume Method for Unsteady Incompressible Flow on Hybrid Unstructured Grids , 2000 .

[41]  Suresh V. Garimella,et al.  An Integrated Thermal and Mechanical Investigation of Molten-Salt Thermocline Energy Storage , 2011 .

[42]  Nesreen Ghaddar,et al.  Numerical simulation of stratification behaviour in thermal storage tanks , 1989 .

[43]  H. A. Vielmo,et al.  Cooling of cylindrical vertical tanks submitted to natural internal convection , 2003 .

[44]  Frank P. Incropera,et al.  Software tools and user's guides to accompany Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer, 5th edition & Introduction to heat transfer, 4th edition , 2002 .

[45]  Antonio Cammi,et al.  Molten salt mixture properties in RELAP5 code for thermodynamic solar applications , 2008 .

[46]  Carlos D. Perez-Segarra,et al.  On DNS and LES of natural convection of wall-confined flows: Rayleigh-Bénard convection , 2011 .