社団法人日本機械学会 Acta Medica Okayama 0387-5016 56 530 1990 水道分岐管の凍結挙動 279 284 EN Hideo Inaba Hideo Ootake The formation of ice growth that occurs in branched pipes (branch angle θ=45° and 90°)containing water flow was investigated experimentally. The experiments were carried out under various experimental conditions over the range of Reynolds number (based on pipe i.d.) Re=420-12500 and cooling temperature ratios of the freezing parameter T(= T_f - T_w)/(T_∞ - T_f), T_f=0℃,T_w= cooling water pipe wall temperature, T_∞= flowing water temperature)=1.3-11.1. From the visualization of ice formation in the pipes, the branched pipe with flowing water was first blocked by ice formation : subsequently, the main pipe downstream of the branched portion was frozen off, and eventually the main pipe upstream of the branched portion was blocked by ice formation. As a result, freezing of the remaining water in the branched portion resulted in a pipe rupture at around the branched portion of the pipe. The transient behavior of ice formation, according to time proceeding, was expressed as a relationship between the pressure loss coefficient f and the Reynolds number Re for various cooling temperature ratios T. In addition, the critical condition of the complete ice blockage in branched pipes was obtained with experimental correlation equations in terms of T and Re. No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.