Wind flow around buildings of basic shapes with and without a wind-adaptive envelope
Autor: | Lenka Kabošová, Dušan Katunský, Stanislav Kmeť |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Computer science
business.industry 020101 civil engineering 02 engineering and technology Mechanics 010501 environmental sciences Computational fluid dynamics Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) 01 natural sciences adaptive building envelope 0201 civil engineering digital design Wind flow cfd analysis TA1-2040 business wind flow 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Envelope (waves) |
Zdroj: | Selected Scientific Papers: Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 59-75 (2020) |
ISSN: | 1338-7278 |
DOI: | 10.1515/sspjce-2020-0007 |
Popis: | Together with the natural environment, the built, artificial environment represents a barrier to the wind fluxes. Especially in the densely built cities, the wind flow pattern and the wind speed are considerably altered by buildings, which can lead to zones of an accelerated wind and turbulent flow. Incorporating the wind into the early conceptual stage of architectural design, this reciprocal interaction of the built environment and the wind fluxes can be analyzed and controlled to create zones of calmer wind around buildings. Presently, building envelopes are designed to withstand extreme load cases, which, however, demands thicker and bulkier structures. The subject of this study is a proposal and investigation of a lightweight, adaptive building envelope, which is able of a local, passive morphing in the wind. This local shape change leads to creating a textured, dimpled building surface; the final shape depends on the wind direction and force. The wind-induced dimpled surface influences the wind flow around the building, as well as surface wind pressure acting on the building, and the drag force. The analysis of three fundamental building shapes using the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation is performed for the variants with and without the proposed adaptive envelope. Concluding from the wind simulations, the wind flow can be decelerated, the turbulence reduced, and calmer zones around buildings can be created, by certain conditions. Moreover, the envelope, morphing with the instant wind force, can contribute to the reduction of the surface wind suction on buildings. Strikingly, the dimpled geometry of the wind-adaptive envelope can decrease the wind drag force by up to 28.4 %, which is again dependent on the global form, as well as the initial wind speed. |
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