Thermal Response of Energy Screw Piles Connected in Series

Experimental and numerical data of thermal response tests executed in groups of energy piles connected in series

“…The details of the geometry and construction of the piles are shown in Fig. 1 and more information can be found in [6] . The soil on site consists of brown-grey clay until 41 meters depth, and the water table is located 7 meters below the surface.…”

“…This experimental test was then used to validate a numerical methodology developed within The University of Melbourne (see [ 7 , 8 ] for more details on the methodology and [6] for the aforementioned validation). The model, built with COMSOL Multiphysics [9] , takes the thermal load and fluid flow rate as an input and calculates the fluid temperatures over time, considering the conductive-convective heat transfer within the circulating fluid and conduction only within all other materials.…”