Wind tunnel tests and numerical simulations of wind pressures on buildings in staggered arrangement

Experimental and numerical characterization of wind-induced pressure coefficients on nuclear buildings and chimney exhausts

“…There is currently no consensus or recommendation on the 'best' two-equation model for calculating the wind pressure on buildings, except that the standard k-ε model is not suitable since it cannot reproduce the separation and reverse flow at the top of a building due to the overestimation of turbulence energy k at the impinging region of the building wall. To overcome this drawback, some authors have used revised k-ε models, such as the MMK model, the Durbin model, the Kato-Launder modification, the RNG k-ε model (Zhang and Gu, 2008), the realizable k-ε model (Montazeri and Blocken, 2013) or k-ω based models such as the SST model. Some authors have also made a model comparison (Kim and Patel, 2000;Endo et al, 2005;Guha et al, 2009;Tominaga and Stathopoulos, 2009;Ramponi and Blocken, 2012;Ai et al, 2013).…”

“…Concerning the effect of wind on the surfaces of buildings, many studies have dealt with buildings whose geometry is either relatively simple (Baskaran and Stathopoulos, 1992;Murakami et al, 1992;ASHRAE, 2001;Endo et al, 2005;Zhang and Gu, 2008;Guha et al, 2009;Tominaga and Stathopoulos, 2009;Kim and Kanda, 2010) or very specific (Suh et al, 1997;Meroney, 2002;Ai et al, 2013;Montazeri and Blocken, 2013). More paper references can also be found in Blocken (2014), which presents a review of the 50 past years of Computational Wind Engineering, including wind effects on 3D buildings.…”

Assessment for the Age-Of-The-Air and Ventilation Efficiency in Confined Outdoor Spaces through Computational Fluid Dynamics Techniques

“…The use of scaled models has been widely justified for validations made over field experiences in real environments [12][13][14] and CFD simulation enables the study of the air behaviour over ideal models so as to obtain a global vision of the relationship between the air and the built volumes [13,[15][16][17].…”

Wind-resistant studies on tall buildings and structures

“…Especially, great efforts have been made on interference effects of wind loads among grouped tall buildings [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Furthermore, field measurements of wind characteristics and building responses [26], local wind pressure characteristics of tall buildings and design method of cladding [18,27], wind-rain loads on tall buildings and towers [28], numerical simulation of wind loads on tall buildings [29][30][31][32][33][34], comparison study on wind effects and earthquake effects on tall buildings with consideration of soil-structure interaction [35,36], wind-induced fatigue life reliability of complicated steel structures [37] and control methods of wind-induced vibration of tall buildings and structures with consideration of aeroelastic effects [38][39][40][41][42][43] were also paid attention to. Some of the above aspects are introduced in this paper.…”