CFD simulations of the wind environment around an airport terminal building

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 520-524

  Neofytou, P ^a   Venetsanos, A G ^a   Vlachogiannis, D ^a   Bartzis, J G ^a   Scaperdas, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b ATKINS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Environmental flows; RANS equations; Turbulence modelling

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

AIRPORT TERMINAL BUILDINGS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS; RANS EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE MODELING;

WIND;

AIRFLOW; AIRPORT; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 32144455100     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.08.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. S. Andronopoulos, J.G. Bartzis, J. Würtz, and D. Asimakopoulos Modelling the effects of obstacles on the dispersion of denser than air gases Journal of Hazardous Materials 37 1994 327 352
2. J.G. Bartzis Turbulent diffusion modelling for wind flow and dispersion analysis Atmospheric Environment 23 1989 1963 1969
3. Bartzis, J.G., 1991. "ADREA-HF: a three-dimensional finite volume code for vapor cloud dispersion in complex terrain". EUR Report 13580 EN.
4. Colmer, M.J., 1971. Some full scale measurements of the flow in the wake of a hangar. Aeronautical Research Council. Current Paper no 1166, RAE Bedford.
5. I.R. Cowan A comparison of wind-tunnel experiments and computational simulations of dispersion in the environs of buildings International Journal of Environmental Pollution 8 1997 699 707
6. G.L. Mellor, and T. Yamada Development of a turbulence closure model for geophysical fluid problems Reviews of Geophysics Space Physics 20 1982 851 875
7. R.N. Meroney, B.M. Leitl, S. Rafailidis, and M. Schatzmann Wind-tunnel and numerical modeling of flow and dispersion about several building shapes Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 81 1999 333 345
8. A.S. Monin, and A.M. Yaglom Statistical fluid mechanics 1973 The MIT Press Cambridge, MA
9. P.J. Oliveira, and B.A. Younis On the prediction of turbulent flows around full-scale buildings Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 86 2000 203 220
10. H.A. Panofsky, H. Tennekes, D.H. Lenschow, and J.C. Wyngaard The characteristics of turbulent velocity components in the surface layer under convective conditions Boundary-Layer Meteorology 11 1977 355 361
11. Peterka, J.A., Cermak, J.E., 1977. Turbulence in building wakes. Proceedings of the Fourth International Convention on Wind Effect on Buildings and Structures, Heathrow.
12. A.G. Robins, R. Hall, I.R. Cowan, J.G. Bartzis, and A. Albergel Evaluating modelling uncertainty in CFD predictions of building affected dispersion International Journal of Environmental Pollution 14 2000 52 64
13. A.G. Venetsanos, D. Vlachogiannis, A. Papadopoulos, S. Andronopoulos, and J.G. Bartzis Studies of pollutant dispersion from moving vehicles Water, Air and Soil Pollution-Focus 2 2002 325 337
14. Venetsanos, A.G., Catsaros, N., Würtz, J., Bartzis, J.G., 1995. The DELTA_B code. A computer code for the simulation of the geometry of three dimensional buildings. Code structure and users manual. Report EUR 16326 EN.
15. D. Vlachogiannis, S. Rafailidis, J.G. Bartzis, S. Andronopoulos, and A.G. Venetsanos Modelling of Flow and Pollution Dispersion in Different Urban Canyon Geometries Water, Air and Soil Pollution-Focus 2 2002 405 417
16. N.G. Wright, G.J. Easom, and R.J. Hoxey Development and validation of a non-linear k-epsilon: model for flow over a full-scale building Wind and Structures 4 2001 177 196