relation: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/62/
title: Piped water cooling of concrete dams
creator: Charpin, J.
creator: Myers, T.
creator: Fitt, A.D.
creator: Fowkes, N.
creator: Ballim, Y.
creator: Patini, A.P.
subject: Energy and utilities
subject: Materials
subject: None/Other
description: Piped water is used to remove hydration heat from concrete dams during construction. By examining simple models we obtain an estimate for the temperature rise along the pipe network and within the concrete. To leading order, for practically useful networks, the temperature distribution is quasi-steady, so that exact analytic solutions are obtained. The temperature in the water increases linearly with distance along the pipe and varies logarithmically with radial distance from the pipe in the concrete. Using these results we obtained estimates for the optimal spacing of pipes and pipe length. Some preliminary work on optimal network design has been done. This is work in progress.
date: 2004
type: Study Group Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/62/1/Pipewat.pdf
identifier:   Charpin, J. and Myers, T. and Fitt, A.D. and Fowkes, N. and Ballim, Y. and Patini, A.P.  (2004) Piped water cooling of concrete dams.  [Study Group Report]