An extended two-dimensional borehole heat exchanger model for simulation of short and medium timescale thermal response

Renewable Energy

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 518-526

  Rees, Simon J ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borehole heat exchanger; Geothermal; Ground source heat pump; Numerical model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODELS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BOREHOLE HEAT EXCHANGERS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FLUID TEMPERATURES; GEOTHERMAL; OUTLET TEMPERATURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TWO DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

BOREHOLE; GEOTHERMAL POWER; HEAT TRANSFER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84929603539     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.05.004     Document Type: Article

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