{"title":"Modeling a Large Thermal Energy Storage System Using RANS Turbulence Models and High-Resolution Measurement Data","authors":"B. Krüger, F. Dammel, P. Stephan","doi":"10.11159/htff22.157","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"– A novel approach to model sensible Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Systems has been developed. Three separate models are used to model the overall system. High-resolution isothermal models are used to simulate the flow around the inlet and outlet diffusers. Velocity data is then used to provide accurate boundary conditions for a simplified non-isothermal model to model the temperature distribution and flow in the main body of the TES. In this short paper, a laminar model is compared with 2 turbulent models and measurement data. Analysis shows the need for further work as the thermocline width increases much faster in all numerical models than seen in the measurement data.","PeriodicalId":385356,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.11159/htff22.157","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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– A novel approach to model sensible Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Systems has been developed. Three separate models are used to model the overall system. High-resolution isothermal models are used to simulate the flow around the inlet and outlet diffusers. Velocity data is then used to provide accurate boundary conditions for a simplified non-isothermal model to model the temperature distribution and flow in the main body of the TES. In this short paper, a laminar model is compared with 2 turbulent models and measurement data. Analysis shows the need for further work as the thermocline width increases much faster in all numerical models than seen in the measurement data.