Underground heat flow patterns for dense neighborhoods with heat pumps

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 632-637

  Kobayashi, H ^a,b   Lorente, S ^c   Anderson, R ^d   Bejan, A ^b  

^a AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c Laboratoire Materiaux et Durabilite des Constructions   (France)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constructal Heat pump Urban design Ground coupled

Indexed keywords

GROUND COUPLED HEAT PUMP; GROUND HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT PUMPS; NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN; RECTANGULAR AREA; VARIABLE SHAPE;

PHYSICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876243439     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.03.030     Document Type: Article

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