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Energy balance at the soil atmospheric interface

Sedighi, Majid, Hepburn, Benjaminn D. P., Thomas, Hywel Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3951-0409 and Vardon, Philip J. 2018. Energy balance at the soil atmospheric interface. Environmental Geotechnics 5 (3) 10.1680/jenge.15.00054

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Abstract

Soil atmospheric interactions play an important role within the thermal energy balance and seasonal temperature variations of the ground. This paper presents a formulation for the surface boundary conditions related to interactions between soil and atmosphere. The boundary condition formulated considers heat flow at the soil–atmosphere interface through mechanisms of shortwave radiation, long-wave radiation, sensible radiation and latent heat radiation. The effects of surface moisture flux on energy balance at the interface are explicitly included in the formulation. The developed boundary condition has been implemented in a numerical model for coupled thermal, hydraulic and mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils. The evaporation component of the model is tested, and the results are compared with data from an experimental study at the surface of an area of agricultural land reported in the literature. The results of modelling have been found to compare favourably with the reported data set. The formulation developed for the soil atmospheric boundary condition allows climatic variables, including solar radiation, ambient air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, rainfall and evaporation, to be incorporated in the long-term analysis of energy balance. This also enables a further detailed inspection of the climate’s role in ground thermal behaviour of ground source heat systems.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Engineering
Subjects: T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Uncontrolled Keywords: buildings, structures & design energy finite-element modelling
Publisher: Thomas Telford (ICE Publishing)
ISSN: 2051-803X
Date of Acceptance: 29 July 2016
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2022 07:45
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/100651

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