BULETINUL INSTITUTULUI POLITEHNIC DIN IAŞI

BULETINUL INSTITUTULUI POLITEHNIC DIN IAŞI
Publicat de
Universitatea Tehnică „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iaşi
Tomul LVIII (LXII), Fasc. 2, 2012
Secţia
MATEMATICĂ. MECANICĂ TEORETICĂ. FIZICĂ
THE HEAT TRANSFER INSIDE AN ARTIFICIAL
SKATING RINK
BY
GELU COMAN ∗ and VALERIU DAMIAN
“Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi,
Department of Thermal Systems & Environmental Engineering
Received: April 23, 2012
Accepted for publication: July 15, 2012
Abstract. The paper presents the modeling of heat transfer and ice
formation around the pipes of a skating rink by the finite element method. In
case of skating rinks equipped with pipe registers, the temperature field during
the ice formation process can be modeled by analytical methods. Thus the paper
advances a method for calculating the temperature and distribution of heat
around the track pipes The heat transfer in the skating rink track is
nonstationary and phase changing.
Key words: solidification, ice, skating rink, heat transfer, phase changing.
1. Introduction
The problem of melting and solidification of substances, regarded in
terms of determining the temperature field in solid and liquid phases and solid
– liquid interface propagation , has aroused considerable (theoretical and
practical) interest , because the conductive transfer processes accompanied by
the phenomenon of phase transition are present in many applications, such as
solidification of ingots, controlled solidification of alloys to obtain certain
metallographic structures, food refrugeration , soil freezing and defreezing, the
ablation phenomenon under aerodynamic heating, thermal storage with phase
change, etc. Mathematical modeling of this phenomenon and especially
∗ Corresponding author: e-mail: gcoman@ugal.ro