Computational Modeling of Shallow Geothermal Systems

Title Page
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Dedication......Page 12
Contents......Page 14
Preface......Page 18
Part I: Preliminaries......Page 20
1. Introduction......Page 22
2. Heat transfer......Page 28
3. Heat transfer in porous media......Page 40
4. Heat transfer in borehole heat exchangers......Page 50
5. Thermal resistance......Page 58
Part II: Analytical and semi-analytical modeling......Page 74
6. Eigenfunction expansions and Fourier transforms......Page 76
7. Laplace transforms......Page 104
8. Commonly used analytical models for ground-source heat pumps......Page 120
9. Spectral analysis of shallow geothermal systems......Page 138
10. Spectral element model for borehole heat exchangers......Page 160
Part III: Numerical modeling......Page 174
11. Finite element methods for conduction-convection problems......Page 176
12. Finite element modeling of shallow geothermal systems......Page 206
References......Page 240
Back Cover
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