An analysis of heat flow through a borehole heat exchanger validated model

Applied Energy

Volumn 92, Issue , 2012, Pages 523-533

  Florides, Georgios A ^a   Christodoulides, Paul ^a   Pouloupatis, Panayiotis ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Borehole; Earth heat exchanger; FlexPDE; Numerical model; U tube

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; BOREHOLE HEAT EXCHANGERS; CONVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; ENERGY FLOW; FILLING MATERIALS; FLEXPDE; GROUND THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUND-SOURCE HEAT PUMP; HEAT FLOWS; NUMERICAL MODELS; REAL BOREHOLE; SET-UPS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TIME-DEPENDENT; U-TUBE;

GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS;

BOREHOLE; ENERGY FLOW; HEAT FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOFTWARE; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

CYPRUS;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84055214185     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.11.064     Document Type: Article

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