ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we present the basic mathematical formulations and computational models currently available and intensively utilized for the simulation of heat flow in ground-source heat pumps. Emphasis will be placed on the utilization of the line and cylindrical heat source models. The aim of this chapter is to present modeling ideas which have been developed on the basis of the point heat source model of Carslaw and Jaeger in 1947. In the meanwhile, we show how simple modeling procedures might lead to rather complicated inverse transform integrals, which require rigorous computational tools to tackle.
