• Wind and Structures
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.347-362
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• 2010

Researches on the Reynolds number effect on bridge decks have made slow progress due to the complicated nature of the subject. Heretofore, few studies on this topic have been made. In this paper, aerostatic coefficients, Strouhal number ($S_t$), pressure distribution and Reynolds number ($R_e$) of Great Belt East Bridge and Sutong Bridge were investigated based on deterministic vortex method (DVM). In this method, Particle Strength Exchange (PSE) was chosen to implement the simulation of the flow around bluff body and to analyze the micro-mechanism of the aerostatic loading and Reynolds number effect. Compared with the results obtained from wind tunnel tests, reliability of numerical simulation can be proved. Numerical results also showed that the Reynolds number effect on aerostatic coefficients and Strouhal number of the two bridges can not be neglected. In the range of the Reynolds number from $10^5$ to $10^6$, it has great effect on the Strouhal number of Sutong Bridge, while the St is difficult to obtain from wind tunnel tests in this range.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.39-53
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• 2018

일반적으로 터널 내 총환기저항계수는 입출구 손실계수, 벽면마찰계수 그리고 급격한 확대나 축소단면 등에 의해 발생하는 부차적 손실계수의 총합으로 구성된다. 개통 전 터널의 경우는 가동 중인 환기팬을 중단하게 되면, 터널 내 풍속은 총환기저항력에 의해 감소하는 현상이 나타난다. 즉, 속도감쇄법은 개통 전 터널에서 비교적 안정적이면서도 손쉽게 터널 내 벽면마찰계수를 추정하는 방법이다. 그러나 기존의 선행연구에서 환기팬의 가동을 중단 후 수렴되는 풍속이 음수일 경우는 속도감쇄법에 따른 벽면마찰계수의 추정이 곤란한 특성이 있다. 반면 교통환기력이 작용하는 공용 중인 터널에서는 좀더 복잡한 과정을 거치지만, 합리적인 벽면마찰계수를 추정할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 교통환기력의 측정변수를 최소화할 수 있는 방법을 제안하였고, 공용 중 터널에 적용할 수 있는 방법을 고찰하였다. 또한 환기팬 정지 후 터널 내 풍속이 감소하는 동안에 외부 자연풍의 급격한 변화가 발생하여도 교통환기력이 일정할 경우에 대하여, 교통환기력의 증분을 계산할 수 있는 방법과 터널 내 벽면마찰계수를 추정할 수 있도록 동적 시뮬레이션이 가능한 프로그램 로직을 개발하였다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.309-322
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• 2022

Due to the complex terrain around high-speed railways, the windbreaks were established along different landforms, resulting in irregular windbreak transition regions between different subgrade infrastructures (flat ground, cutting, embankment, etc). In this paper, the effect of a windbreak transition on the wind flow around railways subjected to crosswinds was studied. Wind tunnel testing was conducted to study the wind speed change around a windbreak transition on flat ground with a uniform wind speed inflow, and the collected data were used to validate a numerical simulation based on a detached eddy simulation method. The validated numerical method was then used to investigate the effect of the windbreak transition from the flat ground to cutting (the "cutting" is a railway subgrade type formed by digging down from the original ground) for three different wind incidence angles of 90°, 75°, and 105°. The deterioration mechanism of the flow fields and the reasons behind the occurrence of the peak wind velocities were explained in detail. The results showed that for the windbreak transition on flat ground, the impact was small. For the transition from the flat ground to the cutting, the influence was relatively large. The significant increase in the wind speeds was due to the right-angle structure of the windbreak transition, which resulted in sudden changes of the wind velocity as well as the direction. In addition, the height mismatch in the transition region worsened the protective effect of a typical windbreak.

• 국제초고층학회논문집
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• 제8권4호
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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.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.1060-1071
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• 2005

Passive gas dispersions over a 1/1000 scale terrain model at Eiffel type wind tunnel were reproduced by numerical simulation. Large eddy simulation was used to treat the sub-grid scale turbulences. The terrain features were represented by millions of point forces densely distributed over the solid surface using the virtual boundary method. The model simulations agreed very well with the experiments in a consistent fashion for all wind directions. The measured profiles of the wind speeds as well as the tracer gas concentrations were nicely simulated by the CFD model at most locations scattered over the model terrain. With scale factor adjusted and the thermal stratification effects incorporated, the CFD model was expected to provide reliable information on pollutant dispersions over the real complex terrains.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.515-526
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• 2002

The wind flow over two-dimensional sinusoidal hilly obstacles with slope (the ratio of height to half width) of 0.5 has been investigated experimentally and numerically. Experiments for single and double sinusoidal hill models were carried out in a subsonic wind tunnel. The mean velocity profiles, turbulence statistics, and surface pressure distributions were measured at the Reynolds number based on the obstacle height(h=40 mm) of $2.6{\times}10^4$. The reattachment points behind the obstacles were determined using the oil-ink dot and tuft methods. The smoke-wire method was employed to visualize the flow structure qualitatively. The finite-volume-method and the SIMPLE-C algorithm with an orthogonal body-fitted grid were used for numerical simulation. Comparison of mean velocity profiles between the experiments and the numerical simulation shows a good agreement except for the separation region, however, the surface pressure data show almost similar distributions.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.423-434
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• 2023

Aerodynamic force coefficients are generally obtained from traditional wind tunnel tests or computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Unfortunately, the techniques mentioned above can sometimes be cumbersome because of the cost involved, such as the computational cost and the use of heavy equipment, to name only two examples. This study proposed to build a deep neural network model to predict the aerodynamic force coefficients based on data collected from CFD simulations to overcome these drawbacks. Therefore, a series of CFD simulations were conducted using different geometric parameters to obtain the aerodynamic force coefficients, validated with wind tunnel tests. The results obtained from CFD simulations were used to create a dataset to train a multilayer perceptron artificial neural network (ANN) model. The models were obtained using three optimization algorithms: scaled conjugate gradient (SCG), Bayesian regularization (BR), and Levenberg-Marquardt algorithms (LM). Furthermore, the performance of each neural network was verified using two performance metrics, including the mean square error and the R-squared coefficient of determination. Finally, the ANN model proved to be highly accurate in predicting the force coefficients of similar bridge sections, thus circumventing the computational burden associated with CFD simulation and the cost of traditional wind tunnel tests.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제44권11호
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• pp.933-940
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 MW 용량의 풍력터빈 블레이드용 에어포일의 설계 단계에서 성능 검증기법에 대한 비교 연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위해 5~10 MW 해상풍력터빈용으로 설계된 21%와 30% 두께비의 에어포일을 사용하여 풍동시험을 수행하였으며, 레이놀즈 수 $1.0{\times}10^7$ 조건에서의 XFOIL의 해석결과와 상호 비교하였다. 풍동시험은 자유흐름 속도 50 m/s, 시위 기준 레이놀즈 수는 $2.2{\times}10^6$에서 수행되었으며, 표면거칠기 효과는 지그재그 테이프를 사용하여 모사하였다. 비교 결과 풍동시험과 XFOIL 해석에는 차이를 보이지만, 풍동시험을 통해 받음각 변화에 따른 에어포일 표면에서의 압력분포 변화와 기본적인 공력 성능 및 표면거칠기 효과를 확인 할 수 있었다. XFOIL은 설계조건에서 기본적인 양항비와 표면거칠기 효과에 의한 양항비 변화 등을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.413-426
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• 2008

A wind tunnel study has been carried out to determine the influence of spacing between buildings on wind characteristics above rural and suburban type of terrain. Experiments were performed for two types of buildings, three-floor family houses and five-floor apartment buildings. The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) models were generated by means of the Counihan method using a castellated barrier wall, vortex generators and a fetch of roughness elements. A hot wire anemometry system was applied for measurement of mean velocity and velocity fluctuations. The mean velocity profiles are in good agreement with the power law for exponent values from ${\alpha}=0.15$ to ${\alpha}=0.24$, which is acceptable for the representation of the rural and suburban ABL, respectively. Effects of the spacing density among buildings on wind characteristics range from the ground up to $0.6{\delta}$. As the spacing becomes smaller, the mean flow is slowed down, whilst, simultaneously, the turbulence intensity and absolute values of the Reynolds stress increase due to the increased friction between the surface and the air flow. This results in a higher ventilation efficiency as the increased retardation of horizontal flow simultaneously accompanies an intensified vertical transfer of momentum.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.179-196
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• 2003

A long suspension bridge is often located within a unique wind environment, and strong winds at the site seldom attack the bridge at a right angle to its long axis. This paper thus investigates the buffeting response of long suspension bridges to skew winds. The conventional buffeting analysis in the frequency domain is first improved to take into account skew winds based on the quasi-steady theory and the oblique strip theory in conjunction with the finite element method and the pseudo-excitation method. The aerodynamic coefficients and flutter derivatives of the Tsing Ma suspension bridge deck under skew winds, which are required in the improved buffeting analysis, are then measured in a wind tunnel using specially designed test rigs. The field measurement data, which were recorded during Typhoon Sam in 1999 by the Wind And Structural Health Monitoring System (WASHMS) installed on the Tsing Ma Bridge, are analyzed to obtain both wind characteristics and buffeting responses. Finally, the field measured buffeting responses of the Tsing Ma Bridge are compared with those from the computer simulation using the improved method and the aerodynamic coefficients and flutter derivatives measured under skew winds. The comparison is found satisfactory in general.