Thermal Management of Urban Subsurface Resources

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit your latest research findings in Thermal Management of Urban Subsurface Resources to a Special Issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050), an open access journal (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability). Submissions should include studies that advance the current state of knowledge or critical reviews of existing models and practices.

The use of shallow subsurface resources is a practice of optimization and energy sustainability that is currently experiencing an exponential increase in urbanized areas, homes, industries, and centers for different services and therefore needs rational management guidelines based on the state of knowledge in this field. This Special Issue aims to collect recent research on the thermal management of urban subsurface resources, including, but not limited to, the following themes: (I) technologies of groundwater use that could take advantage of urban resources for energy supply; (II) modeling of heat flow in urban aquifers and analysis of the exploitation impacts of energy resources; (III) proposals for guidelines for a rational and sustainable management of heat sources in urban aquifers; (IV) effects of heat exchange with annual seasonality; heat extraction/injection cycles in urban aquifers; (V) actual or predictive analysis of the negative effects produced by poor management and overexploitation of the heat resources of groundwater in urban areas; and (VI) long-term predictive stationary or nonstationary models of the effects of the exploitation of subsurface thermal resources. I also encourage submissions on case studies of thermal management of urban subsurface resources even when they have a multidisciplinary character due, for instance, to the mobilization of pollutants due to the processes of temperature change and/or reactivation of the movement of groundwater in contaminated soils.

Prof. Dr. Jesús Mateo Lázaro
Guest Editor

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