Review Article
Study on Calculation Models of Earth-Air Heat Exchanger Systems
Table 2
Two-dimensional calculation models of EAHE systems.
| Authors/type | Methodology | Comparison between experimental and simulation results | Reference |
| Li et al. (2005), underground heat exchanger (UHE) | Inner heat source model of (UHE) solved by Autough2 software | No such comparison available | [27] |
| Kumar et al. (2006), earth-to-air heat exchanger | Artificial neural network (ANN) using deterministic and intelligent models | Good agreement showed | [7] |
| Badescu (2007), ground heat exchanger | A numerical transient bidimensional model | No such comparison available | [51] |
| Zhao et al. (2008), ground-coupled heat exchanger (GCHE) | A theoretical model solved by Keller shooting method | Good agreement showed | [52] |
| Tittelein et al. (2009), earth-to-air heat exchanger | Finite elements program that solves 2D conduction problems | No such comparison available | [53] |
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