Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING
Volume 63, Issue 7, Pages 988-1013Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1313
Keywords
geothermal heating; borehole heat exchanger; Petrov-Galerkin
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This paper presents the development of a computationally efficient finite element tool for the analysis of 3D steady state heat flow in geothermal heating systems. Emphasis is placed on the development of finite elements for vertical borehole heat exchangers and the surrounding soil layers. Three factors have contributed to the computational efficiency: the proposed mathematical model for the heat exchanger, the discretization of the spatial domain using the Petrov-Galerkin method and the sequential numerical algorithm for solving the resulting system of non-linear equations. These have contributed in reducing significantly the required number of finite elements necessary for describing the involved systems. Details of the mathematical derivations and some numerical examples are presented. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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