Investigation of the Thermo-hydraulic performance of a roughened Parabolic trough collector
Usman Allauddin, Muhammad U. Rafique, Osama Malik, Osama Rashid, Ashir Waseem, Peter King, Mounia Karim, Heather Almond
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