On the validity of numerical wind-driven rain simulation on a rectangular low-rise building under various oblique winds

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 621-632

  Abuku, Masaru ^a   Blocken, Bert ^b   Nore, Kristine ^c,d   Thue, Jan Vincent ^d   Carmeliet, Jan ^e,f   Roels, Staf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Norwegian Building Research Institute (NBI)   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Building physics; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Driving rain; Moisture; Rain; Raindrop; Trajectory; Validation; Wind; Wind driven rain

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROPS; DYNAMICS; FACADES; FLUID DYNAMICS; RAIN;

BUILDING ENVELOPES; BUILDING FACADES; BUILDING PHYSICS; CFD SIMULATIONS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; DRIVING RAIN; HYGROTHERMAL; IMPACT ANGLES; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PAPER ADDRESSES; RAINDROP; SIMULATION RESULTS; VALIDATION; WIND DIRECTIONS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BUILDING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINDROP; RAINFALL; TRAJECTORY; WIND DIRECTION;

EID: 57049151806     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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