THE TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN AN ICE RINK PAD

Autor/autori: Gelu COMAN, Krisztina UZUNEANU, Marcel DRAGAN, Valeriu DAMIAN

Abstract: The heat transfer in the skating rink track is nonstationary and phase changing. In case of skating rinks equipped with pipe registers, the temperature field during the ice formation process can’t be modeled by analytical methods. Also, the paper presents the experimental study for temperature distribution around the cooling pipes of an ice rink pad. The experimental research was targeted on finding the temperatures in several points of the pad and also details on the ice shape and quality around the pipes. The experimental results were compared against the numerical modeling using finite elements

Keywords: solidification, ice, skating rink, heat transfer, phase change

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