Influence of the different pipe cooling scheme on temperature distribution in RCC arch dams

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 769-778

  Xie, Hongwei ^a   Chen, Yaolong ^a  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

3 D FEM; Pipe cooling; RCC arch dam; Relocating mesh method; Temperature field

Indexed keywords

ARCH DAMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCRETE DAMS; COOLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PIPE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

PIPE COOLING; PIPE COOLING SCHEME; RELOCATING MESH METHOD; ROLLER COMPACTED CONCRETE; TEMPERATURE FIELD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

COOLING; HEAT TRANSFER; PIPELINE;

EID: 29544449165     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.793     Document Type: Article

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