Numerical investigation of the heating performance of normal and new designed Trombe wall

In this paper a numerical comparison has been made between the heating performance of the new designed and normal Trombe wall under Yazd (Iran) desert climate. The new designed Trombe wall increases the indoor space and decreases the implementation cost of the Trombe wall. In addition, it can receive solar intensity from three directions while the normal Trombe wall can only receive the solar intensity from one direction. The numerical simulation shows that the new designed Trombe wall causes the all parts temperature to increase about 10 A degrees C in comparison with the normal Trombe wall. The velocity through the vents and the channel in the new designed Trombe wall is about 0.03 and 0.01 m/s more than that of the normal Trombe wall respectively. Comparison of two systems shows that the maximum hourly stored energy of the new designed Trombe wall is about 1600 kJ/h more than that of the normal system. Also, the new designed Trombe wall improves the average daily heating efficiency about 27 %.