Development of the Boundary Layer in the Rear Section in BLWT STU - Trnavka

Abstract

This paper deals with the basic simulation of boundary layer in the wind tunnel in STU Bratislava and boundary layer given in the Slovak Technical Standard STN EN 1991-1-4 in Bratislava for category of terrain no. IV. The wind tunnel mainly allows experiments to determine the realistic reproduction of the static and dynamic response of a scale models of the buildings and structures immersed in a turbulent flow which simulates the natural wind in various categories of terrain. We have to deal with similarity criteria of modeling the objects, measuring the pressure and the velocity of flow in the tunnel by using the whole range of devices such as Pitot static probe, Constant Temperature Anemometry, Particle Image Velocimetry etc. all under the control in the program Labview developed by National Instruments .Than we are able to measure the pressure coefficients or any other parameters needed for design of buildings and structures of any shape and size, allowed by tunnel dimensions, placed on a different types of terrain roughness. The most recent research in new BLWT was calibration and simulation of boundary layer in the rear space of the tunnel.