Flores-Irigollen, A.; Fernández, J.L.; Rubio-Cerda, E.; … - In: Renewable Energy 29 (2004) 8, pp. 1367-1382
A mathematical model that describes the dynamics of the heat transfer in an inflatable-tunnel solar collector for air heating is proposed and validated. The model is distributed-parameters, one-dimensional and unsteady-state. It considers the thermal inertia of a pebble bed acting as the...