TY - JOUR A2 - El-Shafie, Ahmed AU - Han, Yunpeng AU - Gao, Xueping PY - 2015 DA - 2015/05/03 TI - Similarity Theory of Withdrawn Water Temperature Experiment SP - 429781 VL - 2015 AB - Selective withdrawal from a thermal stratified reservoir has been widely utilized in managing reservoir water withdrawal. Besides theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, model test was also necessary in studying the temperature of withdrawn water. However, information on the similarity theory of the withdrawn water temperature model remains lacking. Considering flow features of selective withdrawal, the similarity theory of the withdrawn water temperature model was analyzed theoretically based on the modification of governing equations, the Boussinesq approximation, and some simplifications. The similarity conditions between the model and the prototype were suggested. The conversion of withdrawn water temperature between the model and the prototype was proposed. Meanwhile, the fundamental theory of temperature distribution conversion was firstly proposed, which could significantly improve the experiment efficiency when the basic temperature of the model was different from the prototype. Based on the similarity theory, an experiment was performed on the withdrawn water temperature which was verified by numerical method. SN - 2356-6140 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/429781 DO - 10.1155/2015/429781 JF - The Scientific World Journal PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -