Abstract
Full scale pressure measurements at the Texas Tech Field Research Laboratory have been used to investigate the distribution and correlation of fluctuating pressures on a low rise building. Eigenvector analysis of the covariances indicate that longitudinal and lateral turbulence are responsible for the majority of pressure fluctuations. However, a significant second eigenvector for flow normal to the roof edges corresponds with the rollup and discrete shedding of the separation bubble as a whole. Conditional sampling of peak pressures shows that they are better correlated spatially than the time averaged fluctuations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 225-234 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | C |
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| State | Published - Dec 1993 |