A physical model was used in a laboratory exercise to teach students about countercurrent exchange mechanisms. Countercurrent exchange is the transport of heat or chemicals between fluids moving in opposite directions separated by a permeable barrier (such as blood within adjacent blood vessels flowing in opposite directions). Greater exchange of heat or chemicals between the fluids occurs when...

Metal Foam-enhanced Cascaded Thermal Energy Storage (MF-CTES) has been proposed to solve the problem of poor heat transfer during heat exchange process, which is caused by unavoidable decrease of temperature differences. This paper conducts a theoretical study examining the overall thermal performance of STES (Single-stage Thermal Energy Storage), CTES (Cascaded Thermal Energy Storage) and MF-C...

Both Green Infrastructure and Ground Source Heat Exchangers provide opportunities to significantly improve the resilience sustainability of our built environment. This work explores thermo-hydrological response a vegetated Sustainable Drainage System under physically simulated heat injection conditions using soil column 1800 mm diameter 950 height in heavily-instrumented lysimeter. A range fiel...