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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES
Volume 50, Issue 12, Pages 2506-2513Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2011.06.012
Keywords
Ground source heat pump; Analytical solution; Borehole heat exchanger; Finite length; Line source
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- Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) in Germany
- EU
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Available analytical models for the thermal analysis of ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) either neglect groundwater flow or axial effects. In the present study a new analytical approach which considers both effects is developed. Comparison with existing analytical solutions based on the finite and infinite line source theory is carried out. This study shows that in general the heat transfer at the borehole heat exchanger (BHE) is affected by groundwater flow and axial effects. The latter is even more important for long simulation times and short borehole lengths. At the borehole wall the influence of the axial effect is restricted to Peclet numbers lower than 10, assuming the BHE length as characteristic length. Moreover, the influence of groundwater flow is negligible for Peclet numbers lower than 1.2. As a result for Peclet numbers between 1.2 and 10 the combined effect of groundwater flow and axial effects has to be accounted for when evaluating the temperature response of a BHE at the borehole wall and thus the use of the moving finite line source model is required. (C) 2011 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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