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Electrical simulation of thermal losses from underground structures
Author(s) -
Sodha M. S.,
Sawhney R. L.,
Singh S. P.,
Jayashankar B. C.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.4440140213
Subject(s) - thermal , mechanics , simple (philosophy) , materials science , nuclear engineering , environmental science , mechanical engineering , engineering , thermodynamics , physics , philosophy , epistemology
A simple electrical simulation experiment is described which allows the thermal performance of underground structures such as cold‐storages or heating/cooling tunnels to be estimated in the laboratory on reduced scale models. For a sphere, the estimated heat loss is 82–85% of that predicted by an exact solution.