✦ LIBER ✦
The effect of tank geometry on thermally stratified sensible heat storage subject to low Reynolds number flows
✍ Scribed by P.C. Eames; B. Norton
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 854 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0017-9310
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✦ Synopsis
In a theoretical and experimental investigation into the thermal performance of stratified hot water stores, a transient three-dimensional finite-volume based model was validated by comparison with measured temperatures from a series of thirty-two experiments in which the inlet velocities, temperatures and initial store stratification profiles were varied. A parametric analysis ascertained the effect of inlet and outlet port locations on store performance for a range of operating conditions. The effects of finite volume size on predicted levels of entrainment and diffusion in the inlet region are reported.