Date of Award

Fall 1992

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Program/Concentration

Mechanical Engineering

Committee Director

S. K. Chaturvedi

Committee Member

A. S. Roberts

Committee Member

S. N. Tiwari

Call Number for Print

Special Collections; LD4331.E56K54

Abstract

Thermal performance of a Trombe-wall space heating system has been studied numerically for one-day and multiple-day periods. This study analyzes the system performance by simultaneously considering the coupled nature of the channel convection, wall heat conduction and transient room energy balance. A computer program has been written and implemented to assess the effects of system parameters, weather conditions and peak temperature control strategies on the system performance.

The system performance is influenced by such system parameters as the storage wall thickness, channel width and the temperature stratification in the room. Increasing the wall thickness decreases the temperature swings considerably, but the temperature levels in the room still remain outside the comfort condition zone even with the maximum wall thickness of one meter considered in the study. The effect of the channel width on the energy delivery to the room is minimal, but increasing the channel width decreases thermal stratification in the room.

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DOI

10.25777/m8wd-f756

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