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Solar Chimney contains a duct which covers with glass and have an absorb plate to get radiation heat flux from the
sun. This plate warms the inlet air by natural convection. By this method the air goes forward to top of the duct.
Using this method could help you to ventilate rooms of a building which connected to this chimney or produce
power electricity. The problem is choosing suitable absorb plate. In a lot of studies scientists choose Aluminum
plate as absorb plate. Does any body know a better absorb plate.The other question is what's scattering coefficient
and absorption coefficient for Aluminum as a solid and Air as a fluid in this special study ?
Could anyone help us choose a suitable scattering coefficient....

you are seeking the absorptivity / emissivity of the coated aluminum plate . You shouldn't need the
absorption / scattering coefficient of the air unless you are modeling the radiative transfer between the plate
and the fluidI wouldn't think it was significant in the context of home heating

know the absorptivity and emissivity of the aluminum plate and the glazing ( I mean the glass which
covers my collector ).
I found that the scattering coefficient and absorption coefficient for the clean air is about zero. But the
thing I don't know yet is that is it necessary to define absorption coefficient and scattering coefficient for
solids like the glass of collector or aluminum or not.
No need. Absorption / scattering coefficients apply to radiation passing through a semi-transparent medium
(which would have some degree of absorption) with some dispersed interacting particles of differing index
of refraction (which would have some degree of absorption and scattering). The glazing and absorber can
be modeled with surface properties--i.e., emissivity, reflectivity, etc.
The scattering coefficient for a semi-transparent medium is zero, however, the absorption coefficient is a
function of the wavelength, for example:
for solar spectrum a= 10 1 / m

TO DO:

o Have to make the hot source as heat flux/heat generation or UDF (user
defined function), this will be enough for the radiation boundary condition.