Wind Characteristics of High-rise Building with Partial Opening

DOI

10.2991/aece-16.2017.46How to use a DOI?

Keywords

partial openings; wind tunnel test; numerical simulation; wind turbine; wind environment

Abstract

This paper discusses the wind pressure distributions on high-rice buildings with partial openings by means of wind tunnel tests and numerical simulations. The wind tunnel tests were carried out in the boundary layer wind tunnel over an urban terrain with a geometric scale. The numerical simulations used the method of SIMPLEC algorithm and the turbulence model, in which a realizable ?-? model was used to simulate the pressure coefficient and the wind environment surrounding the partial openings. Detailed analyses of wind pressure coefficients for buildings of three different opening cases are presented. The results show that the pressure coefficients are different on the two sides of the opening and the distribution of wind velocity surrounding the opening is remarkably affected by the opening size. Moreover, the wind speed reaches the maximum in the opening when the wind direction is 45ø. This suggests that there is a potential to utilize the wind energy by placing wind turbines in the partial opening of the high-rise buildings.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Weibin YUAN
AU  - Kexing FAN
AU  - Zhao WANG
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - Wind Characteristics of High-rise Building with Partial Opening
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Architectural Engineering and Civil Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 205
EP  - 210
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aece-16.2017.46
DO  - 10.2991/aece-16.2017.46
ID  - YUAN2016/12
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