Yupeng Wu

Contact

• workRoom B23 Lenton Firs House
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 74 84011
• fax0115 95 13159
• yupeng.wu@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

Dr Yupeng Wu is a lecturer in Building Service Design/Environmental Services Design at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham, where previously he was a Research Fellow for a NERC funded research project, undertaking research at CFD modelling and experimental testing for Horizontal Coupled Ground Source Heat Pump systems to assess and give recommendations on how to optimise the CO2 mitigation potential in the UK. Prior to this, he was a Research Fellow at the School of Engineering, University of Warwick for a DTI funded research project for improving the performance of Fresnel lens based PV concentrator systems. He received his PhD in Solar Energy Engineering from University of Warwick, UK. His main research interests include renewable energy technologies for building applications, low-cost solar photovoltaic concentrators, building integrated photovoltaics systems, concentrating photovoltaic/thermal integrated systems and ground coupled heat pump systems.

Teaching Summary

Building Service Design 1 and 4

Built Environment and Fluid Mechanics 1 and 2

Thermofluids 3

Energy Efficient Design in Building

Selected Publications

• WU YUPENG, PHILIP EAMES, TAPAS MALLICK AND MOHAMED SABRY, 2012. Experimental Characterisation of a Fresnel Lens Photovoltaic Concentrating System Solar Energy. 86, 430-440
• WU YUPENG, GAN GUOHUI, VERHOEF ANNE, VIDALE PIER LUIGI AND GARCIA GONZALEZ RAQUEL, 2010. Experimental measurement and numerical simulation of horizontal-coupled Slinky Ground Source Heat Exchangers Applied Thermal Engineering. 30(16), 2574-2583
• WU YUPENG AND PHILIP EAMES, 2011. Experimental Characterisation of an Asymmetric Compound Parabolic PV Concentrator Coupled With a Phase Change Material System In: 7th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference. (In Press.)
• WU YUPENG, GAN GUOHUI , GONZALEZ RAQUEL GARCIA , VERHOEF ANNE AND VIDALE PIER LUIGI, 2011. Prediction of the thermal performance of Horizontal-coupled Ground Source Heat Exchangers International Journal of Low Carbon Technologies. 6(4), 261-269

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Past Research

Experimental tests and CFD modelling of horizontal coupled ground source heat pump

Experimental tests and Thermal modelling of Fresnel lens PV concentrators

Design and manufacture a large area highly collimated solar simulator

Optical and thermal prediction, and experimental testing of an Asymmetric Compound Parabolic PV concentrator (ACPPVC) coupled with a Phase Change Material (PCM) system suitable for building façade integration.

Future Research

Renewable Energy Technologies for building applications

Solar Optical

PV concentrator

Building Integrated PV system

Energy storage

• WU YUPENG, PHILIP EAMES, TAPAS MALLICK AND MOHAMED SABRY, 2012. Experimental Characterisation of a Fresnel Lens Photovoltaic Concentrating System Solar Energy. 86, 430-440
• RAQUEL GARCIA GONZALEZ, ANNE VERHOEF, PIER LUIGI VIDALE, BRUCE MAIN, GUOGUI GAN AND YUPENG WU, 2012. Interactions between the physical soil environment and a horizontal ground coupled heat pump, for a domestic site in the UK Renewable Energy. 44, 141-153 (In Press.)
• WU YUPENG, GAN GUOHUI , GONZALEZ RAQUEL GARCIA , VERHOEF ANNE AND VIDALE PIER LUIGI, 2011. Prediction of the thermal performance of Horizontal-coupled Ground Source Heat Exchangers International Journal of Low Carbon Technologies. 6(4), 261-269
• WU YUPENG AND PHILIP EAMES, 2011. Experimental Characterisation of an Asymmetric Compound Parabolic PV Concentrator Coupled With a Phase Change Material System In: 7th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference. (In Press.)
• RAQUEL GARCÍA GONZÁLEZ, ANNE VERHOEF, PIER LUIGI VIDALE, BRUCE MAIN, GUOHUI GAN AND YUPENG WU, 2011. Interactions between the soil environment and a horizontal ground coupled heat pump for a domestic installation in the UK In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011.
• WU YUPENG, GAN GUOHUI, VERHOEF ANNE, VIDALE PIER LUIGI AND GARCIA GONZALEZ RAQUEL, 2010. Experimental measurement and numerical simulation of horizontal-coupled Slinky Ground Source Heat Exchangers Applied Thermal Engineering. 30(16), 2574-2583
• WU YUPENG AND GAN GUOHUI, 2010. CFD simulation of the thermal performance of slinky heat exchangers for ground source heat pumps In: World Renewable Energy Congress XI and Exhibition 2010.
• WU YUPENG AND GAN GUOHUI, 2010. Simulation of the thermal performance of horizontal-coupled Ground Source Heat Pumps In: 9th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET 2010). (In Press.)
• GARCIA GONZALEZ R, VERHOEF A, VIDALE P.L, GAN G, WU Y, HUGHES A, MANSOUR M, BLYTH E, FINCH J and MAIN B. AND CURTIS R., 2010. Mitigation potential of horizontal ground coupled heat pumps for current and future climatic conditions: UK environmental modelling and monitoring studies In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010. (In Press.)
• WU Y, EAMES P. C and SMYTH M. AND MALLICK T. K., 2007. Optical analysis and thermal prediction of different Asymmetric Compound Parabolic Photovoltaic Concentrators (ACPPVC) systems for building integration In: The International Solar Energy Society Solar World Congress (ISES SWC 2007). (In Press.)
• WU Y and EAMES P. C. AND SMYTH M., 2007. Optical analysis of Asymmetric Compound Parabolic Photovoltaic Concentrators (ACPPVC) suitable for building façade integration In: International Conference on Solar Concentrators for the Generation of Electricity or Hydrogen (ICSC-4). (In Press.)
• WU Y, EAMES P. C and SMYTH M. AND GAN G., 2006. A CFD based simulation of the performance of photovoltaic-thermal collectors In: Renewable Energy in Maritime Island Climates (REMIC2). (In Press.)