The wind field and pollutant dispersion are predicted numerically in a local urban area with crowded buildings and heavy traffic.A domain decomposition method is used in the large eddy simulation,in which the urban ar...The wind field and pollutant dispersion are predicted numerically in a local urban area with crowded buildings and heavy traffic.A domain decomposition method is used in the large eddy simulation,in which the urban area is decomposed into a central area,where pollution is the major concern,and a surrounding region,where the pollutant distribution is not important.The composite model is proposed for the complex building-street layout.The fine grid mesh is used to resolve the buildings in the central area while the buildings are treated as roughness elements in the surrounding region where the coarse grids are used.The proposed numerical method is applied to simulate the wind field and pollutant dispersion from vehicle exhaust in the Rua Do Campo area of Macao.The results show that the composite model is an appropriate method for predicting wind field and pollutant dispersion in the crowded building area.展开更多
Wind loading is one of the most significant factors in civil engineering that influences the structural design considerably.In this paper,a group of manufacturing equipments for downburst simulation based on impinging...Wind loading is one of the most significant factors in civil engineering that influences the structural design considerably.In this paper,a group of manufacturing equipments for downburst simulation based on impinging jet model was developed for investigating the wind loads on structures:including the centrifugal air bellows to generate airflow,a movable platform to realize multiple locations of the building and a freely rotatable turntable to implement alterable building angles.Hundreds of transducers were used to measure the wind action on all surfaces of the building.The pressure coefficients calculated from the observed data were utilized to evaluate the downburst wind load.Pressure distributions on three prism-shaped building models with different placements and angles were investigated to obtain the maximum wind action and mean pressure coefficients.The results showed that the maximum pressure coefficient would reach 1.0 on the top surface if the downburst just broke out over the edifice.Considering that the building was in the developing field of the downburst,the top and the front surfaces would be under high wind pressure and only the back surface would endure wind suction.When the downdraft happens away from the prismatic building,all surfaces,except the front surface,would subject to suction with different degrees.It was also found that the pressure coefficient on the right surface would get its negative peak at first and then go straight up to 0.6 as the angle changed from 0°to 45°and the wind pressure on the front surface would decrease slightly through the whole process.The assertive results provide elemental data for structural wind-resistant design in civil engineering for the downburst-prone areas.展开更多
In the process of storm surge, the seawater often overflows and even destroys the seawall. The buildings near the shore are usually inundated by the seawater through the breach. However, at present, there is little st...In the process of storm surge, the seawater often overflows and even destroys the seawall. The buildings near the shore are usually inundated by the seawater through the breach. However, at present, there is little study focusing on the effects of buildings and breach on the seawall-break flows. In this paper, the lattice Boltzmann （LB） model with nine velocities in two dimensions （1920,9） for the shallow water equations is adopted to simulate the seawall-break flows. The flow patterns and water depth distributions for the seawall-break flows under various densities, layouts and shapes of buildings and different breach discharges, sizes and locations are investigated. It is found that when buildings with a high enough density are perpendicular to the main flow direction, an obvious backwater phenomenon appears near buildings while this phenomenon does not occur when buildings with the same density are paraJlel to the main flow direction. Moreover, it is observed that the occurrence of backwater phenomenon is independent of the building shape. As to the effects of breach on the seawall-break flows, it is found that only when the breach discharge is large enough or the breach size is small enough, the effects of asymmetric distribution of buildings on the seawail-break flows become important. The breach location only changes the flow pattern in the upstream area of the first building that seawater meets, but has little impact on the global water depth distribution.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No. 10872109)the Foundation for Development of Science and Technology in Macao(Grant No. FDCT 055/2005/A)the Supercomputing Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences
文摘The wind field and pollutant dispersion are predicted numerically in a local urban area with crowded buildings and heavy traffic.A domain decomposition method is used in the large eddy simulation,in which the urban area is decomposed into a central area,where pollution is the major concern,and a surrounding region,where the pollutant distribution is not important.The composite model is proposed for the complex building-street layout.The fine grid mesh is used to resolve the buildings in the central area while the buildings are treated as roughness elements in the surrounding region where the coarse grids are used.The proposed numerical method is applied to simulate the wind field and pollutant dispersion from vehicle exhaust in the Rua Do Campo area of Macao.The results show that the composite model is an appropriate method for predicting wind field and pollutant dispersion in the crowded building area.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51161120359)
文摘Wind loading is one of the most significant factors in civil engineering that influences the structural design considerably.In this paper,a group of manufacturing equipments for downburst simulation based on impinging jet model was developed for investigating the wind loads on structures:including the centrifugal air bellows to generate airflow,a movable platform to realize multiple locations of the building and a freely rotatable turntable to implement alterable building angles.Hundreds of transducers were used to measure the wind action on all surfaces of the building.The pressure coefficients calculated from the observed data were utilized to evaluate the downburst wind load.Pressure distributions on three prism-shaped building models with different placements and angles were investigated to obtain the maximum wind action and mean pressure coefficients.The results showed that the maximum pressure coefficient would reach 1.0 on the top surface if the downburst just broke out over the edifice.Considering that the building was in the developing field of the downburst,the top and the front surfaces would be under high wind pressure and only the back surface would endure wind suction.When the downdraft happens away from the prismatic building,all surfaces,except the front surface,would subject to suction with different degrees.It was also found that the pressure coefficient on the right surface would get its negative peak at first and then go straight up to 0.6 as the angle changed from 0°to 45°and the wind pressure on the front surface would decrease slightly through the whole process.The assertive results provide elemental data for structural wind-resistant design in civil engineering for the downburst-prone areas.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.11502124the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province under Grant No.LQ16A020001+2 种基金the Scientific Research Fund of Zhejiang Provincial Education Department under Grant No.Y201533808the Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo under Grant No.2016A610075sponsored by K.C.Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University
文摘In the process of storm surge, the seawater often overflows and even destroys the seawall. The buildings near the shore are usually inundated by the seawater through the breach. However, at present, there is little study focusing on the effects of buildings and breach on the seawall-break flows. In this paper, the lattice Boltzmann （LB） model with nine velocities in two dimensions （1920,9） for the shallow water equations is adopted to simulate the seawall-break flows. The flow patterns and water depth distributions for the seawall-break flows under various densities, layouts and shapes of buildings and different breach discharges, sizes and locations are investigated. It is found that when buildings with a high enough density are perpendicular to the main flow direction, an obvious backwater phenomenon appears near buildings while this phenomenon does not occur when buildings with the same density are paraJlel to the main flow direction. Moreover, it is observed that the occurrence of backwater phenomenon is independent of the building shape. As to the effects of breach on the seawall-break flows, it is found that only when the breach discharge is large enough or the breach size is small enough, the effects of asymmetric distribution of buildings on the seawail-break flows become important. The breach location only changes the flow pattern in the upstream area of the first building that seawater meets, but has little impact on the global water depth distribution.
