An auxiliary ventilation design approach for the ESF development at Yucca Mountain

This paper summarizes the current status of a research project directed at ventilation design for the construction of long and complex development headings and describes an approach developed to determine the ventilation design parameters. The approach is based on the principle of partitioning a long ductwork into segments of finite length and solving separately the resulting networks. It has been incorporated into a computer program, written in Turbo Pascal for IBM PC micro-computers and compatible machines. An application of the program is illustrated by the detailed solution of two auxiliary ventilation systems for the Exploratory Studies Facilities (ESF) at Yucca Mountain