Research Article

Application of Artificial Ground Freezing Technology in Modern Urban Underground Engineering

Table 1

Parameters of the model.

Physical quantitiesSymbolValueUnit

Water densityρL1000kg/m3
Ice densityρI800kg/m3
Sandy gravel densityρS2500kg/m3
Water specific heatCL4182J/(kgK)
Ice specific heatCI2091J/(kgK)
Sandy gravel specific heatCS780J/(kgK)
Water thermal conductivityKL0.6W/(mK)
Ice thermal conductivityKI2.2W/(mK)
Sandy gravel thermal conductivityKS2.3W/(mK)
Latent heat of waterL333kJ/kg
Porosity of sandy gravelφ18.5%
Permeability coefficientku11.1m/d