CFD modeling of snowdrift around a building: An overview of models and evaluation of a new approach

Building and Environment

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 899-910

  Tominaga, Yoshihide ^a   Okaze, Tsubasa ^b   Mochida, Akashi ^b  

^a NIIGATA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Building; CFD; Measurement; Modeling; Snowdrift

Indexed keywords

CFD; CFD MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; CUBIC BUILDING; FIELD MEASUREMENT; MODEL-BASED; MODELING; NEW APPROACHES; NEW MODEL; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; QUANTITATIVE VALIDATION; SNOW DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOWDRIFT; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

BUILDINGS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BUILDING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRIFT (GLACIAL DEPOSIT); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SNOW COVER; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 78649976838     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.10.020     Document Type: Article

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