MODELING AND VALIDATION OF THE THERMAL WALL MODEL WITH AND WITHOUT WATER FLOW FOR THERMAL COMFORT AND HOT WATER USE

Abstract

The research project seeks to validate a thermal wall model with the innovative use of ecological bricks. These bricks have continuous vertical holes; when placed one on top of the other, they will form pipes, like ducts for water, sewage, and electricity. The objective is to use them to pass pipes where water will circulate, forming a coil, in such a way that the thermal energy incident on the wall is captured, not totally, but in a good part, thus reducing the heat exchange between the internal and external parts, providing thermal comfort. Seeking to understand the efficiency of this system with the transport of water through the pipelines, simulations will be carried out on the Solid Works platform that will reproduce in a similar way the heat exchanges of the wall to be built and calculate the pressure losses in the pipes, this variable can be understood as the loss of dynamic energy of the fluid due to the friction of the fluid particles among themselves and against the walls of the pipe. This information will be of fundamental importance for the project since these results will later be compared to the data collected in the actual construction and will provide the basis for the eventual validation of the Thermal Wall model.