Research Article
CFD Simulations and Experimental Investigation of a Flat-Plate Solar Air Heater at Different Positions of Inlet and Outlet
Table 4
The number of tetrahedral cells for four different solar air heaters.
| Sketch | Tetrahedral cell | Number of nodes | Mesh metric | Min | Max | Aver | SD |
| SAH A | 1975134 | 373215 | 1.3643e − 004 | 0.69559 | 0.24006 | 0.10865 | SAH B | 1976653 | 373421 | 2.6557e − 004 | 0.63113 | 0.23992 | 0.1087 | SAH C | 1976408 | 373393 | 2.6945e − 004 | 0.60009 | 0.23992 | 0.10847 | SAH D | 1977148 | 373482 | 2.9713e − 004 | 0.61734 | 0.2398 | 0.10855 |
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