NUMERICAL STUDY OF MIXED CONVECTION IN THEPHOTOVOLTAIC TROMB WALL WINDOW FOR PASSIVE COOLING IN BIOCLIMATIC BUILDINGS

A numerical study is conducted to investigate mixed convection with the Boussinesq approximation in the Photovoltaic Trombwall window for passive cooling in the building.The small sized solar chimney, specially having a variable absorber plate height heated from the front top solar PV cells plate with a constant flux is integrated at the south façade of the building. Then three different values respectively for absorber height, chimney width, and inlet opening size are considered for different combinations of the governing parameters namely, Reynolds number (20