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Partial turbulence simulation and aerodynamic pressures validation for an open-jet testing facility

  • Fu, Tuan-Chun (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University) ;
  • Chowdhury, Arindam Gan (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, International Hurricane Research Center, Florida International University) ;
  • Bitsuamlak, Girma (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Western Ontario) ;
  • Baheru, Thomas (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University)
  • Received : 2013.07.22
  • Accepted : 2014.02.22
  • Published : 2014.07.25
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Abstract

This paper describes partial turbulence simulation and validation of the aerodynamic pressures on building models for an open-jet small-scale 12-Fan Wall of Wind (WOW) facility against their counterparts in a boundary-layer wind tunnel. The wind characteristics pertained to the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) mean wind speed profile and turbulent fluctuations simulated in the facility. Both in the wind tunnel and the small-scale 12-Fan WOW these wind characteristics were produced by using spires and roughness elements. It is emphasized in the paper that proper spectral density parameterization is required to simulate turbulent fluctuations correctly. Partial turbulence considering only high frequency part of the turbulent fluctuations spectrum was simulated in the small-scale 12-Fan WOW. For the validation of aerodynamic pressures a series of tests were conducted in both wind tunnel and the small-scale 12-fan WOW facilities on low-rise buildings including two gable roof and two hip roof buildings with two different slopes. Testing was performed to investigate the mean and peak pressure coefficients at various locations on the roofs including near the corners, edges, ridge and hip lines. The pressure coefficients comparisons showed that open-jet testing facility flows with partial simulations of ABL spectrum are capable of inducing pressures on low-rise buildings that reasonably agree with their boundary-layer wind tunnel counterparts.

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