TY - JOUR
T1 - Characteristics of dynamic pressures on a saddle type roof in various boundary layer flows
AU - Liu, Min
AU - Chen, Xinzhong
AU - Yang, Qingshan
N1 - Funding Information:
The support provided in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China, China ( 91215302, 51478401 ), 111 Project of China ( B13002 ) and Chinese Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities ( 2013YJS057 ) is greatly acknowledged. The support provided by China Scholarship Council, China (CSC 201407090049) during a visit of Min Liu to Texas Tech University is acknowledged.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - This study investigates the characteristics of dynamic pressures on a saddle type roof under normal and corner attacking angles in various boundary layer turbulent flows. Six turbulent flows are simulated in wind tunnel. Long-term wind pressure coefficients data in each flow condition are collected to determine the statistics of pressure coefficients including mean, standard deviation (STD), skewness, kurtosis, negative peak, peak factor and probability distributions. The characteristics of dynamic pressures and the turbulence effects are examined. The pressures in the flow separation region show non-Gaussian characteristics with highly skewed unimodal distributions or bimodal distributions. The widely used moment-based Hermit model approach has limitations in estimating the extreme value distributions and peak factors of strongly non-Gaussian pressure coefficients. The roof pressure coefficients are not sensitive to the mean wind speed profile. On the other hand, the turbulence intensity and integral length scale have noticeable influences on the pressure coefficients. As the low-frequency turbulence cannot be well generated by wind tunnel in general, this study explores a quasi-steady method for compensating the effect of low-frequency turbulence. The STD pressure coefficient in the flow-separation region caused by low-frequency turbulence can be compensated well when the conical vortex is not strong.
AB - This study investigates the characteristics of dynamic pressures on a saddle type roof under normal and corner attacking angles in various boundary layer turbulent flows. Six turbulent flows are simulated in wind tunnel. Long-term wind pressure coefficients data in each flow condition are collected to determine the statistics of pressure coefficients including mean, standard deviation (STD), skewness, kurtosis, negative peak, peak factor and probability distributions. The characteristics of dynamic pressures and the turbulence effects are examined. The pressures in the flow separation region show non-Gaussian characteristics with highly skewed unimodal distributions or bimodal distributions. The widely used moment-based Hermit model approach has limitations in estimating the extreme value distributions and peak factors of strongly non-Gaussian pressure coefficients. The roof pressure coefficients are not sensitive to the mean wind speed profile. On the other hand, the turbulence intensity and integral length scale have noticeable influences on the pressure coefficients. As the low-frequency turbulence cannot be well generated by wind tunnel in general, this study explores a quasi-steady method for compensating the effect of low-frequency turbulence. The STD pressure coefficient in the flow-separation region caused by low-frequency turbulence can be compensated well when the conical vortex is not strong.
KW - Conical vortices
KW - Dynamic pressures
KW - Low- and high-frequency turbulence
KW - Non-Gaussian pressures
KW - Saddle type roof
KW - Turbulence effects
KW - Wind tunnel test
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jweia.2015.11.012
DO - 10.1016/j.jweia.2015.11.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84953410059
VL - 150
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
JF - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
SN - 0167-6105
ER -