Effect of Soil Moisture on Soil Temperature Field Near Buried Pipe

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System effectiveness and useful life of heat pump are directly affected by whether the design of ground heat exchanger is reasonable or not. The efficiency of heat exchanger has a close relationship with soil thermal conductivity coefficient and heat diffusivity, while soil moisture content affects soil thermal conductivity coefficient and soil temperature field. In this paper, we perform numerical simulation on CFD software. Then we study the soil temperature changes through field experiment in different soil moisture content on field experiment and finally obtained the relationships of the moisture content with the single U ground soil temperature field.

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October 2012

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