Thermal calculation of a flat plate solar collector

Abstract

The article is devoted to the thermal calculation of a flat plate solar collector. In this case, the boundary conditions are boundary conditions of the third kind. The solution is found in the transition to an elliptical coordinate system. The author has obtained an analytical solution for the distribution of the temperature field of a collector with an elliptical cross-section at zero ambient temperature with partial adiabatic isolation in the form of a functional series using hypergeometric functions.