THE NATURAL CONVECTION OF AQUIFERS WITH CONSTANT HEAT SOURCES AND ITS INFLUENCE ON TEMPERATURE FIELDS

作     者：LIU Guo-qing ZHOU Zhi-fang 

作者机构：School of Earth Science and EngineeringHohai UniversityNanjing 210098China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Hydrodynamics》 (水动力学研究与进展B辑（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第24卷第4期

页      面：617-627页

核心收录：

学科分类：081702[工学-化学工艺] 080701[工学-工程热物理] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 

基　　金：the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51079043, 41102144) the Program for Non-profit Industry Financial Program of Ministry of Water Resources (Grant Nos. 200901064, 201001020) 2011 of Provincial Young Talents Fund in Anhui Province (Grant No. 2011sQRL171) 

主　　题：porous media natural convection water-thermal coupling sand tank test numerical simulation 

摘      要：By combining sand tank tests with numerical simulations, this paper studies the temperature fields around constant heat sources to reveal the mechanism of the natural convection and its influence on the temperature fields in the process of energy storage. Using the ＂24-channel temperature auto acquisition system＂ developed by our research group in the tests, the temperatures are recorded at measuring points within the research area in the tests, the revised Brinkman equation and a transfer-convection balance model are used for solving the aquifer water-thermal coupling problems, and through comparison of the test results with the calcula- tion results, it is discovered that the influence ranges and the variations of the two temperature fields are consistent, which validates the mathematical model. On the basis of this, we also study the influences of the heat source positions and the boundary conditions on the temperature fields, and the results show that, under the natural convection, the heat source positions may influence the distri- bution of the temperature fields, thus affect the energy storage. For the same energy storage layer, the temperature field for the top energy storage is characterized by a smaller heat influence range and a relatively concentrated temperature distribution. However, when the heat source is at the bottom, the range of a temperature field, and the temperature is relatively dispersed, which is not favorable to heat recycle, with the same heat source position, the boundary conditions determine the size of the critical Rayleigh number, and thus have an influence on the occurrence and the strength of the natural convection, and accordingly, on the temperature fields.