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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/was.2014.19.2.219

Effects of inflow turbulence and slope on turbulent boundary layer over two-dimensional hills  

Wang, Tong (College of Civil Engineering, Shanghai Normal University)
Cao, Shuyang (Department of Bridge Engineering Tongji University)
Ge, Yaojun (Department of Bridge Engineering Tongji University)
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Wind and Structures / v.19, no.2, 2014 , pp. 219-232 More about this Journal
Abstract
The characteristics of turbulent boundary layers over hilly terrain depend strongly on the hill slope and upstream condition, especially inflow turbulence. Numerical simulations are carried out to investigate the neutrally stratified turbulent boundary layer over two-dimensional hills. Two kinds of hill shape, a steep one with stable separation and a low one without stable separation, two kinds of inflow condition, laminar turbulent, are considered. An auxiliary simulation, based on the local differential quadrature method and recycling technique, is performed to simulate the inflow turbulence be imposed at inlet boundary of the turbulent inflow, which preserves very well in the computational domain. A large separation bubble is established on the leeside of the steep hill with laminar inflow, while reattachment point moves upstream under turbulent inflow condition. There is stable separation on the side of low hill with laminar inflow, whilw not turbulent inflow. Besides increase of turbulence intensity, inflow can efficiently enhance the speedup around hills. So in practice, it is unreasonable to study wind flow over hilly terrain without considering inflow turbulence.
Keywords
inflow turbulencen; slope; turbulent boundary laye; two-dimensional hill; separation; speedup; numerical simulation;
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