How could I use this tool to reach to wind pressure distribution over simulated building and How could I deal generally with the results?
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In case it is along wind then you can use the online program made by researchers leaded by Professor Kareem.
Thank you for your reply Said Elias could you provide me with the site or program name.
Khaled, may I suggest that you be very careful about using CFD in bluff-body architectural aerodynamics to obtain design peak cladding pressures. The turbulence models (RANS, LES, ect.) have varying degrees of success; particularly peak negative pressures prove very difficult to get right. This is not the place to describe all the problems associated with a complex bluff-body cityscape in attempts to use Computational Wind Engineering (CWE), but I have a paper in JWE&IA (my co-author Russ Derickson) outlining many of the issues. More recent publications by Bert Blocken and Robert Meroney, both in B&E, would also be a wise read before doing too much on the topic. Many are working on CFD/CWE for building studies, but success is rare due to closure issues and coarse grids. I saw a presentation last year at the APCWE in Aukland by some Taiwanese researchers and they had some very impressive comparisons with wind-tunnel data. However, the huge number of cells (hundreds of millions from memory) meant each wind direction run took a couple of weeks to complete. I don't want to dwell, but read carefully the limitations - way of the future, but many users of CFD in architectural areodynamics are missing the mark when compared to full-scale or wind tunnel. LC
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