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Wind tunnel simulation of wind loading on a solid structure of revolution

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The wind tunnel simulations of wind loading on a solid structure of revolution with one smooth and five rough surfaces were conducted using wind tunnel tests. Time-mean and fluctuating pressure distributions on the surface were obtained, and the relationships between the roughness Reynolds number and pressure distributions were analyzed and discussed. The results show that increasing the surface roughness can significantly affect the pressure distribution, and the roughness Reynolds numbers play an important role in the change of flow patterns. The three flow patterns of subcritical, critical and supercritical flows can be classified based on the changing patterns of both the mean and the fluctuating pressure distributions. The present study suggests that the wind tunnel results obtained in the supercritical pattern reflect more closely those of full-scale solid structure of revolution at the designed wind speed.

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Yang, LT., Gu, ZF. Wind tunnel simulation of wind loading on a solid structure of revolution. Acta Mech Sin 26, 551–558 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-010-0347-2

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