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Improvement of Tornado Simulation by Adjusting Boundary Conditions
Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering 2017 (2017, Gainesville, FL)
  • Yi Zhao
  • Guirong Grace Yan, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Ruoqiang Feng
Abstract

Tornadoes have resulted in significant fatalities and property damage each year. To mitigate this natural hazard, the research on numerically simulating tornadic wind field and investigating the wind effects on civil structures has been conducted. Considering that the setup of the boundary conditions has a significant influence on the generated wind flow when conducting CFD simulations, this study is to investigate how the sizes of the pressure outlet and velocity inlet affect the characteristics of the generated tornadic wind flow by taking the CFD simulation of a real-world tornado (Tornado Spencer) as an example. Based on the observations in this study, the way to improve the tornado simulation by adjusting physical boundary condition is proposed.

Meeting Name
13th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering 2017, ACWE 2017 (2017: May 21-24, Gainesville, FL)
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Keywords and Phrases
  • Boundary conditions,
  • Tornadoes,
  • Wind effects,
  • CFD simulations,
  • Civil structure,
  • Natural hazard,
  • Physical boundary,
  • Property damage,
  • Real-world,
  • Wind field,
  • Wind flow,
  • Computational fluid dynamics,
  • CFD
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-1-5108-5482-6
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2017 American Association for Wind Engineering (AAWE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
5-1-2017
Publication Date
01 May 2017
Citation Information
Yi Zhao, Guirong Grace Yan and Ruoqiang Feng. "Improvement of Tornado Simulation by Adjusting Boundary Conditions" Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering 2017 (2017, Gainesville, FL) (2017) p. 343 - 349
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/guirong-yan/12/