Reply To: Simulation of a storage in a lake – Which tool should be used?

[toni.calabrese]

Dear Rob, thanks a lot for your answer. I will try to be more precise in order to let you understand better which are our goal.

In a first step we will be interested on thermal performance of the storage. This means that we could test different geometry and calculate (with FLUENT?) the thermal losses of the storage. The goal here will be to check which geometry could minimize the heat transmission through the storage to the lake. There is any internal heating system in the storage. The storage should try to keep the water inside warm as much as possible since the storage is a seasonal thermal storage.

In a second step (once the geometry is fixed) our interest will be on materials and structure. Basically we would like to test (with the chosen structure) if the anchorage is able to absorbe the external forces and how the materials of the storage (that should be elastic) reacts on external forces.

Is now a little bit more clear? Thanks and I am waiting for your answer.