In this study, numerical CFD scheme with LES turbulence closure is used for appropriate simulation of transient wind effects on a low-rise building with a scale of 1:1 (full-scale dimension) to yield results comparable to the experimental wind pressure measurements and also full-scale field measured data with no scale issue. The so-called vortex method was employed to generate the inflow wind fluctuation at inlet. In addition, the influence of inflow boundary proximity for a low-rise building via LES is investigated to develop guidelines to reasonably simulate ABL wind characteristics and reproduce the peak pressures on roof areas.
Background
The performance of roofs in low-rise buildings can differ significantly during a windstorm
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The generated transient inflow should possess natural wind characteristics with both time (temporal) and space (spatial) correlations. In this study, in order to make certain that the developed CFD LES model of a low-rise building and the inlet wind velocity fluctuations are in accordance to real world ABL properties, the full scale benchmark data from the Wind Engineering Research Field Laboratory (WERFL) at Texas Tech University (TTU) are used as field measured wind pressure and velocity data. In addition, wind-tunnel measurement from NIST/UWO and open-jet testing at LSU are compared with CFD LES results. The effects of correlation of wind loading on the roof of low-rise buildings are investigated for each cases as well. In addition, the values of peak pressure coefficients are compared with external pressure coefficients, GCp, specified for components and cladding (C&C) in ASCE 7-10. In next sections, the details of technique used for generating the inflow velocity fluctuations in CFD LES are presented.
Inflow Velocity Fluctuation
As CFD techniques have been developed over the recent years, LES becomes one of the widely used turbulence closure to simulate turbulent flows of engineering interests. However, one of the main challenges in computational wind engineering and using CFD simulations via LES turbulence closure is generating appropriate inflow fluctuation at inlet that is representing the real-world ABL wind
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The changes to the source code are made in the `MZLS3' subroutine within the `blibsv.F' source file, which transfers the results of current computations to the results library. The variables TFA, TFC and TFS represent the calculated temperatures of the air, constructions and surfaces of the house for the next time step (future). QFA, QFC and QFS are the corresponding heat fluxes.
Questions 1, a and b answers: As we know (also shown in Figure 1 of this paper), the mixing vanes in the fuel assembly are not symmetric and the flow pattern might not be periodic or cyclic, so it is impossible or extremely difficult to extract information out of any “free boundary” 1x2 section from experimental data taken under the 5x5 bundle test geometry and use this information to benchmark CFD modeling of a 1x2 channel without any convincing justification of how the boundary (or missing boundary) effect is handled. The challenge is how to apply the data obtained within a 5x5 assembly without a 1x2 confined flow boundary to
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[2] Queen Mary University of London, DEN233, Low Speed Aerodynamics, Lecture Notes, 2013, (Accessed on 13th November 2013)
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