The Effect of Shank-Space on the Thermal Performance of Shallow Vertical U-Tube Ground Heat Exchangers

One parameter that may affect the performance of a ground source heat pump is the shank-space, the center-to-center distance between the two branches of a vertical U-tube used in a ground heat exchanger. A 3D steady-state computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of a U-tube ground heat exchanger was...

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Published in:	Energies
Main Authors:	Christopher Vella, Simon Paul Borg, Daniel Micallef
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2020-01-01
Subjects:	ground source heat pump ground heat exchanger thermal performance shallow vertical u-tube shank-space cfd validation
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/3/602