Modelling and simulation of portable solar Scheffler reflector water heater using soft computing techniques Mangesh Phate, Shraddha Toney, Vikas Phate International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2023 Solar Scheffler reflector is a parabolic reflecting dish that concentrates sunlight for various solar based applications. The major disadvantages of the traditional flat plate collector are lower temperature in the concentrator system as compared to the parabolic concentrator. Experimental analysis of solar Scheffler reflector has been carried out for the performance improvement in Indian climate. A dish of 27 m² size has been designed for the study. The maximum capacity of 15 lit received was used for the analysis, which serves as a hot water storage system. The thermal efficiency was estimated based on the reflector's incident radiation shape, operation time, dish area, altitude angle, the initial temperature of the water, and tilt angle of the reflector. Response surface method and artificial neural network were employed to analyse the Scheffler reflector's performance. A good agreement was observed between the model predicted and the measured efficiencies. This work made an effort to predict the Scheffler reflector's thermal efficiency for water heating. The statistical parameters were calculated between actual or experimental efficiency with the model predicted efficiency. It found that the model predicted response of both RSM and ANN shows a good agreement.
Optimization performance parameters of OHNS die steel using dimensional analysis integrated with desirability function International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Production Research, 2019
Mathematical models of material removal rate and power consumption for dry turning of ferrous material using dimensional analysis in indian prospective Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2015
