Article
Modelling Translating Tornado-Like Wind Flow using CFD Simulations
Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering 2017 (2017, Gainesville, FL)
Abstract
This study investigates and compares two different strategies to simulate the translating motion of tornadoes, which are to establish the relative motion between the tornado and the ground, or to move the swirling wind flow directly. To be specific, two approaches based on the two different strategies are applied to model the translating motion of the tornado-like wind flow. By comparing the generated overall and near-ground wind flow with the real-world tornadoes, the proper way to simulate the translation of tornadoes is determined.
Meeting Name
13th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering 2017, ACWE 2017 (2017: May 21-24, Gainesville, FL)
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Second Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Keywords and Phrases
- Tornadoes,
- CFD simulations,
- Real-world,
- Relative motion,
- Tornado-like vortices,
- Wind flow,
- Computational fluid dynamics,
- Tornado simulation,
- Translating tornado
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
Disciplines
Citation Information
Fangping Yuan, Guirong Grace Yan, Ryan Honerkamp and Kakkattukuzhy M. Isaac. "Modelling Translating Tornado-Like Wind Flow using CFD Simulations" Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering 2017 (2017, Gainesville, FL) (2017) p. 968 - 976 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/guirong-yan/17/