Effects of Freestream Turbulence on the Pressure Acting on a Low-Rise Building Roof in the Separated Flow Region

Frontiers in Built Environment

n, Pedro L.¹  Ferná²  ndez-Cabá³ 

[1] Environment, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, United States;Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, United States;Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure &

关键词: Boundary layer wind Tunnel;    Surface pressures;    terrain;    Roughness length;    Turbulence intensity;    Reattachment length;    Gust factor;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fbuil.2018.00017

学科分类：建筑学

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents the experimental design and subsequent findings from a comprehensive series of experiments in a large BLWT to investigate the variation of surface pressures with increasing upwind terrain roughness on low-rise buildings. Geometrically scaled models of the Wind Engineering Research Field Laboratory (WERFL) experimental building were subjected to a wide range of turbulent boundary layer flows, through precise adjustment of a computer control terrain generator called the Terraformer. The study offers an in-depth examination of the effects of freestream turbulence on extreme pressures under the separation “bubble” for the case of the wind traveling perpendicular to wall surfaces, independently confirming previous findings that the spatial distribution of the peaks is heavily influenced by the mean reattachment length. Further, the study shows that the observed peak pressures collapse if data are normalized by the mean reattachment length and a non-Gaussian estimator for peak velocity pressure.

【 授权许可】

CC BY