waterwall

English

Etymology

water +‎ wall

Noun

waterwall (plural waterwalls)

1. A panel on the side of a furnace consisting of multiple tubes that carry water.
   • 2002, Walter R. Niessen, Combustion and Incineration Processes, →ISBN:

     The use of such tempering air has diminished greatly with the shift from refractory to waterwall incinerator construction.

   • 2007, George Y. Lai, High-Temperature Corrosion and Materials Applications, →ISBN, page 379:

     One important industrial example involving this phenomenon is the circumferential cracking that occurs on the waterwall tubes of some supercritical coal-fired boilers, which are fired under low NO_x combustion conditions.

   • 2011, Kenneth W. Ragland, Kenneth M. Bryden, Combustion Engineering, →ISBN, page 411:

     The water is heated to a steam-water mixture in the waterwall tubes of the radiant section, and the wet steam rises to the upper drum.

2. An architectural feature consisting of a wall down which water flows.
   • 1988, Charles Ward Harris, Nicholas T. Dines, Time-saver Standards for Landscape Architecture:

     For greater heights, an interrupted sheet, spouts, a waterwall, or a cascade will provide a display of equal or greater visibility while affording considerable energy savings, less splash, greater wind stability, and a sound quality more appropriate to confined or interior spaces.

   • 2006, Sandro Marpillero, James Carpenter: Environmental Refractions, →ISBN, page 138:

     The design of the waterwalls provides a dramatic environment for its intended purpose as an entrance zone, bridging together the inside of the building and the Commons and park outside.

   • 2011, Meg Calkins, The Sustainable Sites Handbook, →ISBN:

     The facade of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum building includes a “waterwall” made of natural limestone veneer over a CMU block wall that allows surplus rainwater from the green roof to cascade down to provide water to small planting pockets; overflow water is stored in a cistern and recirculated with solar energy to irrigate the wall and provide makeup water for the created wetland in an outdoor classroom space.

   • 2012, Time Out Las Vegas, →ISBN, page 105:

     One of the most dynamic features of Aria is a sweeping, all-embracing waterwall that creates a waterfall hush.