INVESTIGATION OF THE INTERNAL AERODYNAMICS
OF THE CHIMNEY-TYPE EVAPORATIVE COOLING TOWER

A. V. Vlasov, G. V. Dashkov,
A. D. Solodukhin, and S. P. Fisenko

UDC 536.24

We propose a technique for determining the hydrodynamic 
drag of the chimney-type evaporative cooling tower on the basis of 
temperature measurements and the mathematical model developed by us. 
The presence of return vortex flows in the upper part of the subsprinkling 
compartment of the cooling tower is shown. The air velocity in the 
sprinkler and the radius of the stagnant zone in the central part 
have been estimated.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk; email: sad@hmti.ac.by. Translated 
from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 75, No. 5, pp. 64-68, 
September-October, 2002. Original article submitted March 13, 2002.

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