FU Hui, YANG Kai-lin, TAN Shui-wei, GUO Xin-lei (State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China)

Abstract: For overcoming disadvantages of traditional ice-hydrodynamics experiments and model ice, an ice-hydrodynamics simulation platform is developed. This platform greatly improves precision and efficiency, extends simulation capacity, and provides a mean to research complex ice problems in winter. The platform integrates the experiment control SCADA system, the temperature control SCADA system, demountable circulating flume, variable speed pump system, variable speed ice supply system and gate control system, and so on, realizes automatic control and real-time data collection of water level, discharge, gate’s action and ice supply. By ice accumulation experiments of the Tanghe inverted siphon which is a hydraulic structure of the central line of South to North Water Diversion Project, precision and reliability of platform are proved.

Key words: low temperature, ice-hydrodynamics, experimental study, automatic control, real ice

Published in: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 44, No. 3, 2013