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LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION OF TURBULENT BOUNDARY-LAYER FLOW OVER A URBAN TOPOGRAPHY (도시지형을 지나는 난류 경계층 유동의 대와류 수치모사)

  • Kim, Byung-Gu;Lee, Chang-Hoon
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.571-574
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    • 2010
  • Large-eddy simulation has been conducted to simulate turbulent boundary-layer flows over an array of regularly distributed obstacles considering various cases of a wind incident angle. The effect of wind direction was investigated in the square cube array that periodic boundary condition was imposed. Characteristics of the turbulent flow over the obstacle array have been found to be very sensitive to the direction of prevailing wind or of mean wind or of mean pressure gradient but varied with height, specially below the urban canopy. Turbulent statistics are changed sensitively with the direction of mean pressure gradient around 10 degree.

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Numerical Simulation Experiment on the Wind Ventilation Lane of the Local Circulation Winds in Daegu (대구지역의 국지적 대기순환풍의 환기경로에 관한 수치모의 실험)

  • Gu, Hyeon Suk;Kim, Hae Dong;Gang, Seong Dae
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.367-376
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    • 2004
  • In urban area, thermal pollution associated with heat island phenomena is generally regarded to make urban life uncomfortable. To overcome this urban thermal pollution problem, urban planning with consideration of urban climate, represented by the concept of urban ventilation lane, is widely practiced in many countries. In this study, the prevailing wind ventilation lane of a local winds in Daegu during the warm climate season was investigated by using surface wind data and RAMS(Reasonal Atmospheric Model System) simulation. The domain of interest is the vicinity of Daegu metropolitan city(about 900 $km^{2})$ and its horizontal scale is about 30km. The simulations were conducted under the synoptic condition of late spring with the weak gradient wind and mostly clear sky. From the numerical simulations, the following two major conclusions were obtained: (1)The major wind passages of the local circulation wind generated by radiative cooling over the mountains(Mt. Palgong and Mt. Ap) are found. The winds blow down along the valley axis over the eastern part of the Daegu area as a gravity flow during nighttime. (2)After that time, the winds blow toward the western part of Daegu through the city center. As the result, the higher temperature region appears over the western part of Daegu metropolitan area.

Air Corridor Planning Strategy based on the Wind Field and Air Corridor Simulation - A Case Study of Pan-Gyo New Town Development Area - (바람통로 예측모델링을 통한 바람통로 계획전략 - 성남판교 신도시 개발지구를 중심으로 -)

  • 황기현;송영배
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.43-57
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents the air corridor planning strategy based on simulation with MUKLMO_3 (Micro-scale Urban Climate Model) to investigate the wind field and air corridor caused by the land-use change of the New Town Development Area in Pan-Gyo. In the first part, the most frequently observed wind field in the New Town Development Area was measured and used as an initial value to simulate a more realistic wind field and air corridor. Several experiments with different initial values of wind fields were carried out to investigate the wind field change affected by the New Town Development. The results show the features of the wind field of the neutral stability condition in the urban canopy layer with a high resolution near the ground. The wind speed is weakened at this level due to the New Town Development. It was found that the wind field and air corridor are influenced by the land-use change. After the development of the New Town, the speed of the wind field decreased and the main wind directions and air corridor changed. In this study, this model is found to be a useful tool for evaluating air corridor and change of wind field in speed and direction.

Wind Fragility for Urban Street Tree in Korea (강풍 발생 시 국내 가로수의 취약성 분석)

  • Sim, Viriyavudh;Jung, WooYoung
    • Journal of Wetlands Research
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.298-304
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, the analytical method to derive wind fragility for urban street tree in Korea was shown. Monte Carlo Simulation method was used to determine the probability of failure for urban street tree. This probability result was used to determine wind fragility parameters for four types of tree based on the study of street tree species in urban area in Daegu, Korea. Wind fragility for street tree was presented in terms of median capacity and standard deviation of the natural logarithm of the capacity. Results showed that the dominant factor affecting the probability of failure of tree under wind load was their diameter. Moreover, amongst the four types of tree chosen, the tree with height 7m and diameter 35cm had the lowest probability of failure under wind loading, whereas the tree with height 8m and diameter 30cm could resist the least wind loading. The median failure wind speed for urban street tree with height 7m were 43.8m/s and 50.6m/s for diameter 30cm and 35cm, respectively. Also, for tree with height 8m, their median failure wind speeds were 38.7m/s and 45.4m/s for tree with diameter 30cm and 35cm, respectively.

Urban Model for Mean Flow and Turbulence (평균풍속 및 난류 예측을 위한 도심지 모델)

  • Kim, Byung-Gu;Lee, Chang-Hoon;Kim, Seog-Cheol;Jang, Dong-Du;Joo, Seok-Jun;Shim, Woo-Sup
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05b
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    • pp.2923-2928
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    • 2007
  • The study of model for velocity and turbulence within the urban canopy was carried out. To evaluate existing urban model we conducted wind tunnel experiment and large-eddy simulation (LES). Mean velocity profile and turbulence are measured within simple three different obstacle arrays. To obtain supplemental data and to verify morphological model large-eddy simulation was performed. Several methods have been used to achieve embodying the flow field in urban area. Recently, morphological method obtaining flow parameters from the statistical or physical representation of obstacle elements is a arising method. It was found that all morphological model, evaluated in this study, over predict the friction velocity, most sensitive one among the flow parameters. Velocity and turbulence in the urban canopy layer were improved by the correction using 'true' friction velocity.

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LES of wind environments in urban residential areas based on an inflow turbulence generating approach

  • Shen, Lian;Han, Yan;Cai, C.S.;Dong, Guochao;Zhang, Jianren;Hu, Peng
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.1-24
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    • 2017
  • Wind environment in urban residential areas is an important index to consider when evaluating the living environment. However, due to the complexity of the flow field in residential areas, it is difficult to specify the correct inflow boundary conditions in the large eddy simulation (LES). In this paper, the weighted amplitude wave superposition (WAWS) is adopted to simulate the fluctuating velocity data, which satisfies the desired target wind field. The fluctuating velocity data are given to the inlet boundary of the LES by developing an UDF script, which is implemented into the FLUENT. Then, two numerical models - the empty numerical wind tunnel model and the numerical wind tunnel model with spires and roughness elements are established based on the wind tunnel experiment to verify the present method. Finally, the turbulence generation approach presented in this paper is used to carry out a numerical simulation on the wind environment in an urban residential area in Lisbon. The computational results are compared with the wind tunnel experimental data, showing that the numerical results in the LES have a good agreement with the experimental results, and the simulated flow field with the inlet fluctuations can generate a reasonable turbulent wind field. It also shows that strong wind velocities and turbulent kinetic energy occur at the passageways, which may affect the comfort of people in the residential neighborhood, and the small wind velocities and vortexes appear at the leeward corners of buildings, which may affect the spreading of the pollutants.

Large Scale Stabilized Finite Element Simulation and Modeling for Environmental Flows in Urban Area

  • Kashiyama Kazuo
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.21-26
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    • 2006
  • A large-scale finite element simulation and modeling method is presented for environmental flows in urban area. Parallel stabilized finite element method based on domain decomposition method is employed for the numerical simulation. Several GIS and CAD data are used for the preparation of the shape model for landform and urban structures. The present method Is applied to the simulation of flood flow and wind flow In urban area. The present method is shown to be a useful planning and design tool for the natural disasters and the change of environments in urban area.

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Numerical Simulation of Wind Pressures on a High-rise Building by Auto-mesh System

  • Tang, Yuanzhe;Cao, Shuyang
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.255-264
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    • 2019
  • This paper describes large eddy simulation of wind pressures on a square cylinder in a uniform flow and a high-rise building immersed in an atmospheric turbulent boundary layer. For the atmospheric boundary layer case, the inflow turbulence is generated by a numerical wind tunnel. In the numerical simulation, particular attention is devoted to the performance of an auto hexahedral non-structural mesh. Both simulations are performed for three grid systems: an auto hexahedral non-structured grid, a structured Cartesian grid and a non-structured triangular prism grid, and for three grid numbers. The present study shows that the auto hexahedral unstructured mesh achieves the best simulation results for wind pressures on the square cylinder and the high-rise building. When the grid number is sufficiently large, the differences among the results obtained from the three investigated grid systems are not significant. However, the advantage of the auto hexahedral unstructured mesh becomes clear when the grid number decreases, because it enables a balanced distribution of orthogonal grids. The results described in this paper demonstrate that the auto hexahedral non-structured mesh has good potential applicability to simulation of urban flows.

Numerical Simulation of Effect of Urban Land-use Type and Anthropogenic Heat on Wind Field (지표면 변화와 인공열이 바람장에 미치는 영향에 관한 수치 시뮬레이션)

  • 홍정혜;김유근
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.511-520
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    • 2000
  • The urban atmosphere is characterized by th difference in surface and atmospheric environment between urban and more natural area. To investigate th climatic effect of land use type and anthropogenic heat of urban on wind field, numerical simulations were carried out under typical summer synoptic condition. The wind model PNU_MCM(Pusan National University Mesoscale Circulation Model) is based on the three-dimensional Boussinesq equations, taking into account the hydrostatic assumption . Since lane-use differs over every subdivision on Pusan the surface energy budget model includes sub0grid parameterization scheme which can calculate the total heat flux over a grid surface composed of different surfaces. The simulated surface wind agrees well with the observed value, and average over 6 days which represent typical summer lan-sea breeze days, August 1998, i.e. negligible gradient winds and almost clear skies. Urbanization makes sea-breeze enhance at day and reduce land-breeze at night. The results show that contribution of land-use type is much larger than that of anthropogenic heat in Pusan.

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Galloping of overhead transmission lines in gusty wind

  • Ohkuma, Takeshi;Marukawa, Hisao
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.243-253
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    • 2000
  • To develop galloping suppression devices, it is important to understand the effects of wind turbulence on galloping and to establish an evaluation method which takes 'large conductor deformations' into account. This paper introduces some findings on galloping in gusty wind obtained by numerical simulation using a model based on the Mogami Test Line of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. The equations of motion of the conductor are based on the Lagrangian formulations by Simpson, and they are made discrete in accordance with a finite element method.