The deCordova Snow House exhibit consists of an underground granite structure which preserves an enormous snowball from winter to summer solstice. The team was tasked with the thermal analysis of the exhibit to recommend viable options for insulation and storage. By performing a heat balance on the proposed design, a finite difference model was created to calculate the resulting diameter of the snowball in summer. By utilizing industrial insulators and preindustrial ice house designs, an appropriate result can be reached.

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Creator

• Broulidakis, Nicholas F
• Marquez, Jenny Alejandra
• Ge, Shuimiao
• Paredes, Maria Isabel

Contributors

• Mark, David A.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-031213-021817

Advisor

• Savilonis, Brian James

Year

• 2013

Center

• MIT Lincoln Laboratory-Lexington, Massachusetts Project Center - MQP

Sponsor

• deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

Date created

• 2013-03-12

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright