Modeling and Fluent Analysis of Solar Heat for Solar Water Heater

Abstract

This work studies the performance of heat pipe solar collector for water heating. Experimental results are validated using analysis modeling. heat pipes with distilled water as a working fluid were used for experimental tests. Both natural and forced convective heat pipe condensing mechanisms are studied and their results are compared with different materials and different dimensions using 2 velocities Using solar power as base power and fundamental heat principle is our motto. Solar plate is designed with different dimensions and a experiment is conducted with two velocities ie( 1m/s and 0.5m/s) on copper and aluminum materials Convection is the basic principle which we deal with and calculating higher efficiency on different material on 2 meters length plate.