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Numerical investigation about the improvement of the thermal potential of an Earth-Air Heat Exchanger (EAHE) employing the Constructal Design method

Kepes Rodrigues, Michel; da Silva Brum, Ruth; Vaz, Joaquim - In: Renewable Energy 80 (2015) C, pp. 538-551

principle is based on fluid mechanics and heat transfer, areas in which Constructal Design has been widely used to seek for the … optimal geometries, i.e., which leads to the best performances. In spite of this fact, the employment of Constructal Design … work is to perform a numerical investigation on different geometrical configurations of an EAHE using the Constructal …

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Derivation of the optimal internal cooling geometry of a prismatic slab: Comparison of constructal and non-constructal geometries

Robbe, M.; Sciubba, E. - In: Energy 34 (2009) 12, pp. 2167-2174

This paper investigates the thermal performance of a prismatic slab internally cooled by a bundle of staggered tubes. Four tube arrangements are considered, each case having three constructal levels of cooling tubes; for each case a single ratio between two consecutive tube level diameters is...

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