As a renewable energy source, geothermal energy has been widely used to provide space
heating and cooling for buildings. The thermal performance of ground heat exchanger …

This study employs the finite line source (FLS) method, a fully analytical model, to evaluate
thermal interactions, heat loss, and heat storage rates of borehole thermal energy storage …

Recent improvements to pygfunction, an open-source tool for the calculation of??-functions,
are presented. The latest version 2.2 enables the calculation of??-functions for fields …

We present a novel, three-dimensional (3D), space-marching analytical framework that
accurately predicts and evaluates the thermal performance of a geothermal borehole system …

Simulation-based design tools have been used since the late 1980s for designing ground
heat exchangers (GHE) used with ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems. The ground …

The study of heat transfer in ground heat exchangers (GHEs) considering the fluid advection
inside the pipes; the heat transfer between the fluid and the ground through the grout …

The effect of the discretization of geothermal boreholes on the accuracy of g-function
evaluations is studied. A data set of 557,056 bore field configurations covering a large range …

Featured Application The architectural design, modeling, mechanical dynamic simulation,
and corresponding analysis have been applied to a practical new construction program, a …

Thermal response functions, known as g-functions, are commonly used in ground heat
exchanger design tools and whole building energy simulation programs to simulate the …

Simulation-based design tools have been used since the late 1980s for designing vertical
borehole ground heat exchangers (GHE) used with ground source heat pump (GSHP) …