The award-winning text Water and thermal functionality of Roman thermal complexes. Las Termas mayores de Mura in Llíria (Valencia), by Santiago Tormo Esteve, presents the thermal baths of ancient Edeta (Llíria), one of the largest and most unique Valencian examples of the expertise of Roman engineers and architects.

The wisdom with which they designed the entrances to the ovens, the materials chosen for the transmission of heat inside the rooms, the complex hydraulic network that allows the hot and cold water to enter and exit. A whole compendium where the four elements, fire, water, air and earth, are mixed with the architectural designs in the most efficient way to make the most of the functionality of buildings created to accommodate the population in their time of relaxation.

The book uses computational engineering to explain the actual functioning of the building. It concludes with the hypotheses of materials, the ducts through which the air circulates, the design of the shapes of the rooms and the dynamics of the start-up, elements that define it as one of the most important thermal examples of Roman Hispania.

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