In this paper, we calculated the separation distance spaced apart from the mixed water defined as
hydrothermal cooling distance by 1 degree Celsius at the heat flux condition in January and August using CFD
in the range of Reynolds number from 100,000 to 5,000,000. When several T-branch pipes are installed in a
single pipeline system, the heating and cooling efficiency changes according to the temperature of the raw river
water for a hydrothermal source. A result similar to that of the theoretical analysis was shown at Reynolds
number of less than 2,500,000, but, however, it was found that heating rather than cooling occurred at
5,000,000. This is because the theoretical equations was derived from the one-dimensional assumption where the
multi-dimensional effect is ignored in viscous flow. Therefore, the result is generated because the heating effect
due to the skin-friction heat dissipation at pipes increases more than the cooling one by the negative heat flux.
However, although the heating effect can be negligible in the flow domain in this paper, the heating effect must
be considered in the entire metropolitan area, so the limitation of flow rate is inevitable to avoid the saturation of
hydrothermal efficiency.