Numerical Investigation of Integrating a Trombe
Wall into a Single Room

Sahar Ben Romdhane; Rim Ben khalifa; Amani Amamou; Zohir Younsi; Nejla Mahjoub Saïd

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Numerical Investigation of Integrating a Trombe Wall into a Single Room

Sahar Ben Romdhane¹, Rim Ben khalifa², Amani Amamou², Zohir Younsi³ and Nejla Mahjoub Saïd^4,5*

¹ LESTE, National Engineering School of Monastir, University of Monastir, Tunisia

²LGM, National Engineering School of Monastir, University of Monastir, Tunisia

³FUPL, Hautes Etudes d’Ingénieur (HEI), LGCgE (EA 4515), F-59000 Lille, France

⁴ Department of Physics, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia

⁵ LGM, Preparatory Institute for Engineering Studies, University of Monastir, Tunisia

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Received Date: February 08, 2020; Published Date: February 25, 2020

Abstract

Trombe walls are receiving abundant attention due to their potential capacity to face the environmental and energy crisis. Through the natural convection and the storage of energy, the heating load in a building is reduced throughout the winter season. This study presents a numerical investigation of integrating a Trombe wall within a three-dimensional room. A comparison of two systems is done using two different CFD codes: ANSYS-FLUENT 14.0, which is employed in the numerical investigation of Mehran and Vali, and scSTREAM V13 used in the present paper. The study is carried out under laminar and incompressible flow.

Keywords: Trombe wall; Storage of energy; Natural convection; Heating; 3D room

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Sahar Ben R, Rim Ben k, Amani A, Zohir Y, Nejla M S. Numerical Investigation of Integrating a Trombe Wall into a Single Room. Cur Trends Civil & Struct Eng. 5(2): 2020. CTCSE.MS.ID.000607