Showing papers in "Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics in 2005"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive review of wind tunnel simulation studies in urban street canyons/intersections including the effects of building configurations, canyon geometries, traffic induced turbulence and variable approaching wind directions on flow fields and exhaust dispersion.

TL;DR: In this paper, experimental and numerical investigations were carried out for flow fields of a small wind turbine with a flanged diffuser, which gave a power coefficient higher than the Betz limit ( = 16 / 27 ) owing to the effect of the diffuser.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an open, public model for the purpose of probabilistic assessment of risk to insured residential property associated with wind damage from hurricanes, which comprises atmospheric science, engineering, and financial/actuarial components.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed comparison of the data with existing wind load provisions in building codes and make a limited comparison among the data obtained during this study, based on roof slope, building height and building plan dimension.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of three parameters, elevation, aspect ratio, and side ratio, on bluff-body flow and thereby on the local wind forces are discussed, and the overall loads and base moments are obtained by integration of local wind force coefficients.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analytical model for dynamics of wind-vehicle-bridge (WVB) systems is presented in the time domain with wind, rail vehicles and bridge modeled as a coupled vibration system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the performance of four measure-correlate-predict (MCP) algorithms using a common set of data from a variety of sites (complex terrain, coastal, offshore).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the current wind load provisions for low buildings in the ASCE 7-02 (ASCE Standard, Minimum Design Loads for Building and other Structures, ASCE, New York, USA, 2002), the AS/NZS 1170.2:2002, Standards Australia International Ltd., Sydney, AS and Standards New Zealand, Wellington, NZ, 2002, the Eurocode (Eurocode 1: Basis of Design and Actions on Structures), and the NBCC (National Building Code for Canada 1995 (NBCC(1995)); including User

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of several main factors, including the inclination angle, frequency and damping of the cable as well as the wind yaw angle, etc. on the characteristics of rain-wind-induced vibration are investigated in detail in the test.

TL;DR: In this article, a calculation method based on an explicit algebraic model for the components of the turbulent stress tensor is proposed, and the results are found to be in acceptable agreement with experimental results.

TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical model with the RNG κ − e turbulence closure model and a pressure correction algorithm of SIMPLEC is used to examine three different building configuration effects on wind flow.

TL;DR: The CFD-based design and the installation of the measurement setup are outlined, samples of the database containing the wind, rain and high-resolution WDR measurements are provided and discussed and the use of these data to determine WDR coefficients and their use in WDR assessment are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of a program of wind tunnel model tests on pressure distributions for irregular-plan shapes (L- and U-shaped models) were presented, and the experiments were carried out in a closed-circuit wind tunnel and a multi-channel pressure measurement system was used to measure mean values of loads on 1:100 scale models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated methods for controlling airflow in and around a building in order to improve indoor thermal comfort by utilizing cross-ventilation, and found that a comfortable indoor thermal environment could be attained in a considerable part over summer by controlling the window opening.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of parapets on the wind-induced loads on low buildings were investigated using wind tunnel data collected from about 700 pressure taps in the area of a corner panel of 3.7m×7.6m.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative assessment of methods for extreme value analysis of US wind speed data using four different methods, namely Standard Gumbel, Modified GUMEL, Peaks-Over-Threshold (POT) and Method of Independent Storms (MIS), is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) technique is applied to the time-varying means, standard deviations and normalized fluctuation of wind speed time series.

TL;DR: In this paper, a reliability analysis method is proposed to estimate the flutter reliability of a suspension bridge by using a combination of the advantages of the response surface method (RSM), finite element method (FEM), first-order reliability method (FORM) and the importance sampling updating method.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the wind energy potential in the eastern Mediterranean region using hourly wind data taken from seven stations during 1992-2001 periods by the Turkish Meteorological Service.

TL;DR: In this paper, a pulsed wall jet was used to simulate the gust front of a thunderstorm downburst and the characteristics of the hypothesized ring vortex of a full-scale downburst were reproduced at a scale estimated to be 1:3000.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of a moving floor on the flow around a simplified car with a typical fastback geometry is investigated and two large-eddy simulations of the flows with stationary and moving floors are made and both instantaneous and time-averaged results are compared.

TL;DR: In this article, a generalized quasi-static theory is introduced to define new relationships among the flutter derivatives and the aerodynamic admittance functions, and all the relationships are theoretically verified for the zero circular frequency.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method similar to the recirculation bubble promoter was used for different approach flow speed distributions to predict flow separation and reattachment at the sharp edge of a cube or rib.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on alternative parapet geometries which can mitigate local component and cladding loading due to the formation of corner vortices, and find that spoilers and porous perimetric parapets significantly reduce the loads for all areas in the corner, edge and interior zones considered.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of the wind-tunnel experiments showed good agreement with the field experiments, indicating that the wind direction is one of the important parameters in studying atmospheric diffusion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of the spatial and probabilistic characteristics of pressure fields on the aggregate uplift acting on roof panels of low-rise gable roof buildings representative of typical homes are explored.

TL;DR: In this paper, a wind tunnel study on the turbulent structure of the airflow around a three-dimensional hill model placed in a boundary-layer flow is presented, and the effect of atmospheric stability: stable, neutral and unstable on the flow field of the boundary layer is examined.

TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that excesses over any finite choice of threshold for such a parent do not conform to the GPD model and that with the present available length of data sets, such a significance test will always confirm the null hypothesis of a Type I fit.

TL;DR: In this article, regional scale models of selected developed portions of the Hawaiian Islands have been constructed and tested in a boundary-layer wind tunnel to determine wind velocity accelerations and decelerations due to topographic influence over a grid of data acquisition locations.

TL;DR: In this article, a computational Eulerian-Lagrangian model that simulates movement of cars inside a road tunnel and its impact on operational ventilation is presented. But the model does not consider the effect of traffic speed and traffic rates.