Employing Phase Change Materials (PCMs) is normally considered as an effective measure
to store thermal energy, by means of their latent heat during phase changing. But, it could
also represent a method to smooth the thermal wave generated from operations of thermal
machines, such as ground-source heat pumps (GSHPs). This paper evaluates the
application of PCMs through numerical modelling to solve the heat transfer in ground carried
out by a horizontal and shallow ground heat exchangers (GHXs), when coupled to a GSHPs …