Abstract
In this study heat extraction ratio of a solar pond was investigated numerically by using the Discrete Ordinates Method (DOM) with the direct solver PARDISO by using nested dissection multithreaded preordering algorithm, and the findings without exchanger were compared with experimental data to validate simulation accuracy of numerical approaches in the Mediterranean climatic condition. The solar pond was modeled with the same dimension as a previous experimental system and a heat exchanger was placed in the heat storage zone and simulation to take out the hot water at a certain flow was performed with the commercial software COMSOL. The solar position was defined for Adana and ambient data was obtained by processing the ASHRAE Weather Data Viewer 5.0. As a result, the maximum and minimum heat extraction ratio (HER) is calculated as 13.39 % in July and 2.96 % in September for a flow rate of 0.007 kg/s; 24.27 % in June, and 3.23 % in September for a flow rate of 0.014 kg/s, respectively.
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