Publication detail

Thermally activated wall system with latent heat thermal energy storage – comparison of 1D and 3D model

CHARVÁT, P. KLIMEŠ, L. OSTRÝ, M.

Original Title

Thermally activated wall system with latent heat thermal energy storage – comparison of 1D and 3D model

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The paper deals with a comparison of the 1D and 3D model of a thermally activated wall panel with a phase change material. The 3D model was created in the off-the-shelf simulation tool COMSOL and the 1D model was an in-house developed TRNSYS type. The main advantage of the 1D model is the short computation time. It, however, comes at the expense of lower accuracy and less detailed results. In most building performance simulations, the detailed knowledge of the temperature distribution over the surface of a wall is not important. For this reason, the results of both models were compared in terms of the average surface temperature of the wall panels, the outlet water temperature and the overall heating and cooling capacity of the panels. The two models provided very similar results for the mass flow rates of water from about 0.001 kg/s but the discrepancies increased with the decreasing mass flow rate.

Keywords

building simulation, thermal energy storage, phase change materials

Authors

CHARVÁT, P.; KLIMEŠ, L.; OSTRÝ, M.

Released

7. 8. 2017

Location

San Francisco, USA

ISBN

9781775052005

Book

Building Simulation 2017

Edition number

1

Pages from

46

Pages to

51

Pages count

6

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT143890,
  author="Pavel {Charvát} and Lubomír {Klimeš} and Milan {Ostrý}",
  title="Thermally activated wall system with latent heat thermal energy storage – comparison of 1D and 3D model",
  booktitle="Building Simulation 2017",
  year="2017",
  number="1",
  pages="46--51",
  address="San Francisco, USA",
  doi="10.26868/25222708.2017.026",
  isbn="9781775052005"
}