To investigate the impact of building heat transfer on roof snow loads,roof snow loads and snow load thermal coefficients from 61 Chinese sites over a period of 50 years are simulated based on basic meteorological dat...To investigate the impact of building heat transfer on roof snow loads,roof snow loads and snow load thermal coefficients from 61 Chinese sites over a period of 50 years are simulated based on basic meteorological data such as temperature,humidity,wind speed,and precipitation,and a multi-layer snowmelt model considering the building heat transfer.Firstly,the accuracy of the multi-layer snowmelt model is validated using the data of observed ground snow load and roof snow melting tests.The relationship between meteorological conditions,snow cover characteristics,and thermal coefficients of snow loads in three representative sites is then studied.Furthermore,the characteristics of thermal coefficients in each zone are analyzed by combining them with the statistical results of meteorological data from 1960 to 2010,and the equations of thermal coefficients in different zones on indoor temperatures and roof heat transfer coefficients are fitted separately.Finally,the equations in this paper are compared with the thermal coefficients in the main snow load codes.The results indicate that the snowmelt model using basic meteorological data can effectively provide samples of roof snow loads.In the cold zone where the snow cover lasts for a long time and does not melt easily,the thermal coefficients of the snow loads on the heating buildings are lower than those in the warm zone due to the long-term influence of the heat from inside the buildings.Thermal coefficients are negatively correlated with indoor temperatures and roof heat transfer coefficients.When the indoor temperature is too low or the roof insulation is good,the roof snow load may exceed the ground snow load.The thermal coefficients for heated buildings in the main snow load codes are more conservative than those calculated in this paper,and the thermal coefficients for buildings with lower indoor temperatures tend to be smaller.展开更多
The accreted ice on wind turbine blades significantly deteriorates the blade aerodynamic performance and consequently the power production.The existing numerical simulations of blade icing have mostly been performed w...The accreted ice on wind turbine blades significantly deteriorates the blade aerodynamic performance and consequently the power production.The existing numerical simulations of blade icing have mostly been performed with the Eulerian approach for two-dimensional(2D)blade profiles,neglecting the possible three-dimensional(3D)rotating effect.This paper conducts a numerical simulation of rime ice accretion on a 3D wind turbine blade using the Lagrangian approach.The simulation results are validated through previously published experimental data.The icing characteristics along the blade radial direction are then investigated in detail.Significant radial airflow along the blade is observed,which demonstrates the necessity of 3D simulation.In addition,more droplets are found to impinge on the blade surface near the tip region,thereby producing severer ice accretion there.The accreted ice increases almost linearly along the blade radial direction in terms of both ice mass and maximum ice thickness.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52078380)。
文摘To investigate the impact of building heat transfer on roof snow loads,roof snow loads and snow load thermal coefficients from 61 Chinese sites over a period of 50 years are simulated based on basic meteorological data such as temperature,humidity,wind speed,and precipitation,and a multi-layer snowmelt model considering the building heat transfer.Firstly,the accuracy of the multi-layer snowmelt model is validated using the data of observed ground snow load and roof snow melting tests.The relationship between meteorological conditions,snow cover characteristics,and thermal coefficients of snow loads in three representative sites is then studied.Furthermore,the characteristics of thermal coefficients in each zone are analyzed by combining them with the statistical results of meteorological data from 1960 to 2010,and the equations of thermal coefficients in different zones on indoor temperatures and roof heat transfer coefficients are fitted separately.Finally,the equations in this paper are compared with the thermal coefficients in the main snow load codes.The results indicate that the snowmelt model using basic meteorological data can effectively provide samples of roof snow loads.In the cold zone where the snow cover lasts for a long time and does not melt easily,the thermal coefficients of the snow loads on the heating buildings are lower than those in the warm zone due to the long-term influence of the heat from inside the buildings.Thermal coefficients are negatively correlated with indoor temperatures and roof heat transfer coefficients.When the indoor temperature is too low or the roof insulation is good,the roof snow load may exceed the ground snow load.The thermal coefficients for heated buildings in the main snow load codes are more conservative than those calculated in this paper,and the thermal coefficients for buildings with lower indoor temperatures tend to be smaller.
基金jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52078380)the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.SLDRCE19-B-14)。
文摘The accreted ice on wind turbine blades significantly deteriorates the blade aerodynamic performance and consequently the power production.The existing numerical simulations of blade icing have mostly been performed with the Eulerian approach for two-dimensional(2D)blade profiles,neglecting the possible three-dimensional(3D)rotating effect.This paper conducts a numerical simulation of rime ice accretion on a 3D wind turbine blade using the Lagrangian approach.The simulation results are validated through previously published experimental data.The icing characteristics along the blade radial direction are then investigated in detail.Significant radial airflow along the blade is observed,which demonstrates the necessity of 3D simulation.In addition,more droplets are found to impinge on the blade surface near the tip region,thereby producing severer ice accretion there.The accreted ice increases almost linearly along the blade radial direction in terms of both ice mass and maximum ice thickness.