Numerical Analysis of Thermal Behavior and Fluid Flow in Geothermal Energy Piles

Geothermal heat exchangers are a growing energy technology that improve the energy efficiency of heating and cooling systems in buildings. Vertical borehole heat exchangers (BHE) coupled with ground source heat pumps have been widely developed and researched in the past century. The major disadvan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Willis Hope III
Other Authors: Mechanical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/24013