This paper presents a detailed comparison of using Reynolds Averaging Navier-Stokes
(RANS) approach in predicting wind pressure on a super-tall 406 m slender tower with …

At present, the wind engineering toolbox consists of wind-tunnel testing of scaled models,
limited full-scale testing, field measurements, and mechanical load/pressure testing. The …

Data from tests on a full-scale, single-span high eaves commercial glasshouse are used to
quantify the uncertainties associated with the use of computational fluid dynamics to obtain …

An increasing number of engineering applications require accurate predictions of the flow
around buildings to guarantee performance and safety. This paper investigates the effects of …

This paper reviews the current state-of-the-art in the numerical evaluation of wind loads on
buildings. Important aspects of numerical modeling including (i) turbulence modeling,(ii) …

A comprehensive numerical study of wind effects on the Commonwealth Advisory
Aeronautical Council (CAARC) standard tall building is presented in this paper. The …

Detailed measurements on a low-rise building made at full scale and on a wind-tunnel
model show a significant Reynolds number effect associated with the separated flow region …

Abstract Various Reynolds Average Numerical Simulation (RANS) turbulent models of
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) are widely used in numerical simulation of wind …

Scale resolved turbulence models, such as large eddy simulation (LES), have been
increasingly utilised in applications of computational wind engineering (CWE) for tall …

Up till recent years, predicting wind loads on full-scale tall buildings using Large Eddy
Simulation (LES) is still impractical due to a prohibitively large amount of meshes required …