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IDA Tunnel manual

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IDA Tunnel Manual

About this manual

This document is a reference manual for IDA Tunnel and IDA Road Tunnel.  The Guide is organized as a reference manual with separate topics. This manual provides a deeper insight into the program's functionality for IDA models both rail and road tunnels.

Some of the items discussed will not be found in the IDA Road Tunnel interface. Such passages are marked with a grey box like this:

Example of paragraph which only pertains to IDA Tunnel.  

Contents

About this manual

Additional Tunnel components

    Rail tunnel branch

    Damper

    Passage (Rail tunnel) 

    Axial fan

    Given flow

    Filter (Rail tunnel) 

    Saccardo nozzle

    Simplified air injection or extraction point

    Heater

    Doors and leaks

    Heating coil

    Cooling coil

    Air washer

    Road tunnel branch

    Recirculation (Road tunnel)

    Plenum with portals (Road tunnel)

Selected topics on physical modelling

    Specifying wall properties

    Using computed wall temperature fields

    Emergency traffic

    Overview of pressure and flow

    Traffic flow model

    Specifying transversal ventilation

    Specifying ambient data

Selected topics on IDA usage

    Creating input tables and binding variables

    Recording output time series

    Adding a time series from file (source file)

    Creating schedules and binding variables

    Working with database

    Hot start

    Long term simulation

    Stochastic train traffic

    Distribution of train heat and air fraction along the train length

    Ambient temperature gradient

    Diagram properties

    Input time series from file (source file)

    Building a custom form

Parametric Runs

   Access to Parametric runs case

Graphical Scripts

   Introduction

Next (Additional components)