Air flow around isolated gable-roof buildings with different roof pitches: Wind tunnel experiments and CFD simulations

Building and Environment

Volumn 84, Issue , 2015, Pages 204-213

  Tominaga, Yoshihide ^a   Akabayashi, Shin ichi ^b   Kitahara, Takuya ^a   Arinami, Yuki ^b  

^a NIIGATA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Gable roof; Roof pitch; Steady RANS; Wind tunnel experiment

Indexed keywords

AIR; BUILDINGS; FLOW FIELDS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; ROOFS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE MODELS; VORTEX FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; GABLE ROOFS; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; STEADY RANS; STREAM-WISE VELOCITIES; TIME-AVERAGED VELOCITY; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AIRFLOW; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELD; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROOF; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 84912019386     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.11.012     Document Type: Article

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