This book presents insights into the thermal performance of solar thermal collectors using both computational and experimental modeling. It consists of various computational and experimental case studies conducted by the authors on the solar thermal collector system. The authors begin by developing thermal modeling using a case study that shows the effect of different governing parameters. A few more experimental cases studies follow that highlight the energy, exergy, and environmental performance of the solar thermal collector system and to examine the performance of a modified solar collector system, illustrating performance improvement techniques. Finally, application of different evolutionary optimization techniques such as soft computing and evolutionary methods, like fuzzy techniques, MCDM methods like fuzzy logic based expert system (FLDS), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Grey relational analysis (GRA), Entropy-Jaya algorithm, Entropy-VIKOR etc. are employed.

Covers improvement of solar thermal systems and advances in solar air collector systems, modeling, and optimization Includes modeling and parametric optimization issues for the practitioners of solar thermal industries Provides a new method for modeling and optimizing solar air collectors using actual case studies from the field

Autorentext
Dr. Biplab Das presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India. Dr. Das completed his Ph.D. from NERIST, Itanagar, India, in the year of 2014. Later, he pursued his Post-Doctoral research from the University of Idaho, USA. He is the recipient of the prestigious Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy (BASE) Fellowship from IUSSTF and DST, Govt. of India. He is also awarded a 'DBT Associateship' by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. He has 15 years of experience in teaching/research and published more than 120 nos. of referred International/National Journal/conference journal papers. Presently Dr. Das has been involved in 10 nos. of sponsored projects as PI/Co-PI, funded by SERB, DST, Ministry of Power, and the Ministry of Climate Change, Govt. of India. He has guided 09 nos. of Ph.D. and at present 06 Ph.D. scholars are working with him. Dr. Das serves as an editor of 3 nos. of books/proceedings.

Dr. Jagadish is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.

Inhalt
Introduction .- Modeling and optimization of energetic and exergetic performance of solar air collector .- Expert system based thermal performance analysis of corrugated absorber plate based solar air collector .- Investigation of thermal performance of SAC variables using fuzzy logic-based expert system.- Sustainability assessment of solar air collector using deep learning.