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1.
Dispersion of a Point-Source Release of a Passive Scalar Through an Urban-Like Array for Different Wind Directions 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
The dispersion of a point-source release of a passive scalar in a regular array of cubical, urban-like, obstacles is investigated
by means of direct numerical simulations. The simulations are conducted under conditions of neutral stability and fully rough
turbulent flow, at a roughness Reynolds number of Re
τ
= 500. The Navier–Stokes and scalar equations are integrated assuming a constant rate release from a point source close to
the ground within the array. We focus on short-range dispersion, when most of the material is still within the building canopy.
Mean and fluctuating concentrations are computed for three different pressure gradient directions (0°, 30°, 45°). The results
agree well with available experimental data measured in a water channel for a flow angle of 0°. Profiles of mean concentration
and the three-dimensional structure of the dispersion pattern are compared for the different forcing angles. A number of processes
affecting the plume structure are identified and discussed, including: (i) advection or channelling of scalar down ‘streets’,
(ii) lateral dispersion by turbulent fluctuations and topological dispersion induced by dividing streamlines around buildings,
(iii) skewing of the plume due to flow turning with height, (iv) detrainment by turbulent dispersion or mean recirculation,
(v) entrainment and release of scalar in building wakes, giving rise to ‘secondary sources’, (vi) plume meandering due to
unsteady turbulent fluctuations. Finally, results on relative concentration fluctuations are presented and compared with the
literature for point source dispersion over flat terrain and urban arrays. 相似文献
2.
Drag partition measurements were made in the atmospheric inertial sublayer for six roughness configurations made up of solid
elements in staggered arrays of different roughness densities. The roughness was in the form of a patch within a large open
area and in the shape of an equilateral triangle with 60 m long sides. Measurements were obtained of the total shear stress
(τ) acting on the surfaces, the surface shear stress on the ground between the elements (τS) and the drag force on the elements for each roughness array. The measurements indicated that τS quickly reduced near the leading edge of the roughness compared with τ, and a τS minimum occurs at a normalized distance (x/h, where h is element height) of
(downwind of the roughness leading edge is negative), then recovers to a relatively stable value. The location of the minimum
appears to scale with element height and not roughness density. The force on the elements decreases exponentially with normalized
downwind distance and this rate of change scales with the roughness density, with the rate of change increasing as roughness
density increases. Average τS : τ values for the six roughness surfaces scale predictably as a function of roughness density and in accordance with a shear
stress partitioning model. The shear stress partitioning model performed very well in predicting the amount of surface shear
stress, given knowledge of the stated input parameters for these patches of roughness. As the shear stress partitioning relationship
within the roughness appears to come into equilibrium faster for smaller roughness element sizes it would also appear the
shear stress partitioning model can be applied with confidence for smaller patches of smaller roughness elements than those
used in this experiment. 相似文献
3.
Aerodynamic Parameters of Regular Arrays of Rectangular Blocks with Various Geometries 总被引:8,自引:8,他引:0
The aerodynamic effects of various configurations of an urban array were investigated in a wind-tunnel experiment. Three aerodynamic
parameters characterising arrays—the drag coefficient (C
d
), roughness length (z
o) and displacement height (d)—are used for analysis. C
d
is based on the direct measurement of the total surface shear using a floating element, and the other two parameters are
estimated by logarithmic fitting of the measured wind profile and predetermined total drag force. The configurations of 63
arrays used for measurement were designed to estimate the effects of layout, wind direction and the height variability of
the blocks on these parameters for various roughness packing densities. The results are summarised as follows: (1) The estimated
C
d
and z
o of the staggered arrays peak against the plan area index (λ
p
) and frontal area index (λ
f
), in contrast with values for the square arrays, which are less sensitive to λ
p
and λ
f
. In addition, the square arrays with a wind direction of 45° have a considerably larger C
d
, and the wind direction increases z
o/H by up to a factor of 2. (2) The effect of the non-uniformity of roughness height on z
o is more remarkable when λ
f
exceeds 20%, and the discrepancy in z
o is particularly remarkable and exceeds 200%. (3) The effect of the layout of tall blocks on C
d
is stronger than that of short blocks. These results indicate that the effects of both wind direction and the non-uniformity
of the heights of buildings on urban aerodynamic parameters vary greatly with λ
p
and λ
f
; hence, these effects should be taken into account by considering the roughness packing density. 相似文献
4.
Direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow over regular arrays of urban-like, cubical obstacles are reported. Results are analysed in terms of a formal spatial averaging procedure to enable interpretation of the flow within the arrays as a canopy flow, and of the flow above as a rough wall boundary layer. Spatial averages of the mean velocity, turbulent stresses and pressure drag are computed. The statistics compare very well with data from wind-tunnel experiments. Within the arrays the time-averaged flow structure gives rise to significant ‘dispersive stress’ whereas above the Reynolds stress dominates. The mean flow structure and turbulence statistics depend significantly on the layout of the cubes. Unsteady effects are important, especially in the lower canopy layer where turbulent fluctuations dominate over the mean flow. 相似文献
5.
Sheikh Ahmad Zaki Aya Hagishima Jun Tanimoto Naoki Ikegaya 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2011,138(1):99-120
It is difficult to describe the flow characteristics within and above urban canopies using only geometrical parameters such
as plan area index (λ
p
) and frontal area index (λ
f
) because urban surfaces comprise buildings with random layouts, shapes, and heights. Furthermore, two types of ‘randomness’
are associated with the geometry of building arrays: the randomness of element heights (vertical) and that of the rotation
angles of each block (horizontal). In this study, wind-tunnel experiments were conducted on seven types of urban building
arrays with various roughness packing densities to measure the bulk drag coefficient (C
d
) and mean wind profile; aerodynamic parameters such as roughness length (z
o
) and displacement height (d) were also estimated. The results are compared with previous results from regular arrays having neither ‘vertical’ nor ‘horizontal’
randomness. In vertical random arrays, the plot of C
d
and z
o
versus λ
f
exhibited a monotonic increase, and z
o
increased by a factor of almost two for λ
f
= 48–70%. C
d
was strongly influenced by the standard deviation of the height of blocks (σ) when λ
p
≥ 17%, whereas C
d
was independent of σ when λ
p
= 7%. In the case of horizontal random arrays, the plot of the estimated C
d
against λ
f
showed a peak. The effect of both vertical and horizontal randomness of the layout on aerodynamic parameters can be explained
by the structure of the vortices around the blocks; the aspect ratio of the block is an appropriate index for the estimation
of such features. 相似文献
6.
Numerical Investigations of Mean Winds Within Canopies of Regularly Arrayed Cubical Buildings Under Neutral Stability Conditions 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Recently, several attempts have been made to model the wind velocity in an urban canopy in order to accurately predict the
mixing and transport of momentum, heat, and pollutants within and above the canopy on an urban scale. For this purpose, unverified
assumptions made by Macdonald (Boundary-Layer Meteorol 97:25–45, 2000) to develop a model for the profile of the mean wind
velocity within an urban canopy have been used. In the present study, in order to provide foundations for improving the urban
canopy models, the properties of the spatially-averaged mean quantities used to make these assumptions have been investigated
by performing large-eddy simulations (LES) of the airflow around square and staggered arrays of cubical blocks with the following
plan area densities: λ
p
= 0.05, 0.11, 0.16, 0.20, 0.25, and 0.33. The LES results confirm that the discrepancy between the spatial average of wind
velocity and Macdonald’s five-point average of wind velocity can be large in both types of arrays for large λ
p
. It is also confirmed that Prandtl’s mixing length varies significantly with height within the canopy, contrary to Macdonald’s
assumption for both types of arrays and for both small and large λ
p
. On the other hand, in accordance with Macdonald’s assumption, the sectional drag coefficient is found to be almost constant
with height except in the case of staggered arrays with high λ
p
. 相似文献
7.
Xiao-Ming Cai 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2012,142(3):443-467
We develop a large-eddy simulation (LES) model based on a meteorological numerical model for a real scale street-canyon flow
with rough building facets heated by a given temperature. The model is applied to a canyon with the aspect ratio of unity
for two idealized heating scenarios: (1) the roof and the entire upstream wall are heated, named as ‘assisting cases’, and
(2) the roof and the entire downstream wall are heated, named as ‘opposing cases’. These facets were heated up to 15 K above
the air temperature. A wall function for temperature is proposed for a rough facet with an assumption that the thermal roughness
length, z
0T, is much smaller than the aerodynamic roughness length, z
0. It is demonstrated that the sensible heat flux and canyon-air temperature are significantly influenced by the near-facet
process that is parametrized by z
0T as the primary factor; other processes such as in-canyon mixing and roof-level exchange are secondary. This new finding strongly
suggests that it is vital to choose an appropriate value of z
0T in a numerical simulation of street-canyon flows with the facet-air exchange processes of heat or any scalar. The finding
also raises an awareness of the demand for carefully designed laboratory or field experiments of quantifying z
0T values for various urban surfaces. For the opposing cases, an unsteady penetrating narrow updraft zone appears occasionally
along the heated wall and this feature is consistent field observations. The unique result indicates the superior capability
of LES. The results of this study can be used to guide the parametrization of turbulent processes inside the urban canopy
layer. 相似文献
8.
Turbulence data from experiments conducted over a staggered cube array, modelling a neutrally stable atmospheric boundary
layer in an urban environment, are presented. The results support the contention that organised eddy structures in the near-wall
region differ significantly from those in regular smooth-wall flows or in rough-wall boundary layers with much smaller h/δ ratios (where δ and h are the boundary-layer thickness and the height of the roughness elements, respectively). Attention is concentrated on spatial
correlations, spectra (and thus the dominant length and time scales), maps of anisotropy invariants and quadrant analyses
of the stress tensor. Results are obtained within both the roughness sublayer (i.e. the region above the roughness but within
which the flow is spatially inhomogeneous) and the canopy region (i.e. below the height of the roughness elements) and discussion
includes consideration of the turbulence kinetic energy balance at various heights. 相似文献
9.
The Effect of Stratification on the Aerodynamic Roughness Length and Displacement Height 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
S. S. Zilitinkevich I. Mammarella A. A. Baklanov S. M. Joffre 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2008,129(2):179-190
The roughness length, z
0u
, and displacement height, d
0u
, characterise the resistance exerted by the roughness elements on turbulent flows and provide a conventional boundary condition
for a wide range of turbulent-flow problems. Classical laboratory experiments and theories treat z
0u
and d
0u
as geometric parameters independent of the characteristics of the flow. In this paper, we demonstrate essential stability
dependences—stronger for the roughness length (especially in stable stratification) and weaker but still pronounced for the
displacement height. We develop a scaling-analysis model for these dependences and verify it against experimental data. 相似文献
10.
Aerodynamic Properties of Rough Surfaces with High Aspect-Ratio Roughness Elements: Effect of Aspect Ratio and Arrangements 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Jasim Sadique Xiang I. A. Yang Charles Meneveau Rajat Mittal 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2017,162(2):203-205
We examine the effect of varying roughness-element aspect ratio on the mean velocity distributions of turbulent flow over arrays of rectangular-prism-shaped elements. Large-eddy simulations (LES) in conjunction with a sharp-interface immersed boundary method are used to simulate spatially-growing turbulent boundary layers over these rough surfaces. Arrays of aligned and staggered rectangular roughness elements with aspect ratio >1 are considered. First the temporally- and spatially-averaged velocity profiles are used to illustrate the aspect-ratio effects. For aligned prisms, the roughness length (\(z_\mathrm{o}\)) and the friction velocity (\(u_*\)) increase initially with an increase in the roughness-element aspect ratio, until the values reach a plateau at a particular aspect ratio. The exact value of this aspect ratio depends on the coverage density. Further increase in the aspect ratio changes neither \(z_\mathrm{o}\), \(u_*\) nor the bulk flow above the roughness elements. For the staggered cases, \(z_\mathrm{o}\) and \(u_*\) continue to increase for the surface coverage density and the aspect ratios investigated. To model the flow response to variations in roughness aspect ratio, we turn to a previously developed phenomenological volumetric sheltering model (Yang et al., in J Fluid Mech 789:127–165, 2016), which was intended for low to moderate aspect-ratio roughness elements. Here, we extend this model to account for high aspect-ratio roughness elements. We find that for aligned cases, the model predicts strong mutual sheltering among the roughness elements, while the effect is much weaker for staggered cases. The model-predicted \(z_\mathrm{o}\) and \(u_*\) agree well with the LES results. Results show that the model, which takes explicit account of the mutual sheltering effects, provides a rapid and reliable prediction method of roughness effects in turbulent boundary-layer flows over arrays of rectangular-prism roughness elements. 相似文献
11.
A parametrization method used to account for the effects of flow separation and wall roughness on the lower boundary condition
for turbulent boundary layers is investigated against direct numerical simulation and laser Doppler anemometry data. The numerical
simulation represents flow over a smooth, flat surface with a prescribed external adverse pressure gradient. The water-channel
experiments cover flow over smooth and rough hills for two specified Reynolds numbers. Global optimization algorithms based
on four different direct search methods are used to assess the parametrization function, C, in terms of local mean velocity profiles and the parametrization parameters u
* (friction velocity), ∂
x
p (local pressure gradient), z
0 (effective roughness) and d (zero-plane displacement). The study investigates regions of attached and reversed flows, and forty-two velocity profiles
are compared with the proposed expression for the function C, including two profiles that satisfy the solution of Stratford. 相似文献
12.
A wind-tunnel study was conducted to investigate ventilation of scalars from urban-like geometries at neighbourhood scale
by exploring two different geometries a uniform height roughness and a non-uniform height roughness, both with an equal plan
and frontal density of λ
p
= λ
f
= 25%. In both configurations a sub-unit of the idealized urban surface was coated with a thin layer of naphthalene to represent
area sources. The naphthalene sublimation method was used to measure directly total area-averaged transport of scalars out
of the complex geometries. At the same time, naphthalene vapour concentrations controlled by the turbulent fluxes were detected
using a fast Flame Ionisation Detection (FID) technique. This paper describes the novel use of a naphthalene coated surface
as an area source in dispersion studies. Particular emphasis was also given to testing whether the concentration measurements
were independent of Reynolds number. For low wind speeds, transfer from the naphthalene surface is determined by a combination
of forced and natural convection. Compared with a propane point source release, a 25% higher free stream velocity was needed
for the naphthalene area source to yield Reynolds-number-independent concentration fields. Ventilation transfer coefficients
w
T
/U derived from the naphthalene sublimation method showed that, whilst there was enhanced vertical momentum exchange due to
obstacle height variability, advection was reduced and dispersion from the source area was not enhanced. Thus, the height
variability of a canopy is an important parameter when generalising urban dispersion. Fine resolution concentration measurements
in the canopy showed the effect of height variability on dispersion at street scale. Rapid vertical transport in the wake
of individual high-rise obstacles was found to generate elevated point-like sources. A Gaussian plume model was used to analyse
differences in the downstream plumes. Intensified lateral and vertical plume spread and plume dilution with height was found
for the non-uniform height roughness. 相似文献
13.
Hiroshi Takimoto Ayumu Sato Janet F. Barlow Ryo Moriwaki Atsushi Inagaki Shiho Onomura Manabu Kanda 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2011,140(2):295-314
We investigate the spatial characteristics of urban-like canopy flow by applying particle image velocimetry (PIV) to atmospheric
turbulence. The study site was a Comprehensive Outdoor Scale MOdel (COSMO) experiment for urban climate in Japan. The PIV
system captured the two-dimensional flow field within the canopy layer continuously for an hour with a sampling frequency
of 30 Hz, thereby providing reliable outdoor turbulence statistics. PIV measurements in a wind-tunnel facility using similar
roughness geometry, but with a lower sampling frequency of 4 Hz, were also done for comparison. The turbulent momentum flux
from COSMO, and the wind tunnel showed similar values and distributions when scaled using friction velocity. Some different
characteristics between outdoor and indoor flow fields were mainly caused by the larger fluctuations in wind direction for
the atmospheric turbulence. The focus of the analysis is on a variety of instantaneous turbulent flow structures. One remarkable
flow structure is termed ‘flushing’, that is, a large-scale upward motion prevailing across the whole vertical cross-section
of a building gap. This is observed intermittently, whereby tracer particles are flushed vertically out from the canopy layer.
Flushing phenomena are also observed in the wind tunnel where there is neither thermal stratification nor outer-layer turbulence.
It is suggested that flushing phenomena are correlated with the passing of large-scale low-momentum regions above the canopy. 相似文献
14.
Spatio-Temporal Surface Shear-Stress Variability in Live Plant Canopies and Cube Arrays 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
Benjamin Walter Christof Gromke Katherine C. Leonard Costantino Manes Michael Lehning 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2012,143(2):337-356
This study presents spatiotemporally-resolved measurements of surface shear-stress τ
s in live plant canopies and rigid wooden cube arrays to identify the sheltering capability against sediment erosion of these
different roughness elements. Live plants have highly irregular structures that can be extremely flexible and porous resulting
in considerable changes to the drag and flow regimes relative to rigid imitations mainly used in other wind-tunnel studies.
Mean velocity and kinematic Reynolds stress profiles show that well-developed natural boundary layers were generated above
the 8 m long wind-tunnel test section covered with the roughness elements at four different roughness densities (λ = 0, 0.017, 0.08, 0.18). Speed-up around the cubes caused higher peak surface shear stress than in experiments with plants
at all roughness densities, demonstrating the more effective sheltering ability of the plants. The sheltered areas in the
lee of the plants are significantly narrower with higher surface shear stress than those found in the lee of the cubes, and
are dependent on the wind speed due to the plants ability to streamline with the flow. This streamlining behaviour results
in a decreasing sheltering effect at increasing wind speeds and in lower net turbulence production than in experiments with
cubes. Turbulence intensity distributions suggest a suppression of horseshoe vortices in the plant case. Comparison of the
surface shear-stress measurements with sediment erosion patterns shows that the fraction of time a threshold skin friction
velocity is exceeded can be used to assess erosion of, and deposition on, that surface. 相似文献
15.
Momentum and Heat Transfer over Urban-like Surfaces 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Momentum and heat transfer was examined for the urban-like surfaces used within the Comprehensive Outdoor Scale MOdel (COSMO)
experiments. Simultaneous and comparative meteorological measurements were made over a pair of scale models with different
block geometries. These data were analyzed to investigate the influence of height variations, obstacle elongation, and packing
density, λ
p
, of blocks on the aerodynamic properties. In addition, the robustness of theoretical expressions of bulk transfer coefficients
for momentum and heat with respect to geometric parameters was examined. Our analyses showed: (1) the theoretical framework
for the bulk transfer coefficient for momentum, C
m
, and that for heat, C
h
, was applicable for homogeneous building arrays, (2) the sensitivity of C
h
to the surface geometry was smaller than that of C
m
, (3) the transfer coefficients were increased by variations of block heights, but not by elongation of blocks, (4) first-order
approximations of C
m
and C
h
for an array of blocks with two different heights can be made by applying simple theoretical assumptions to include the effects
of height variation, and (5) variations of block heights increased the momentum flux significantly, but caused little change
in the sensible heat flux. This can be explained by the feedback mechanism of aerodynamic– thermal interaction; aerodynamic
mixing decreased both the advective velocity and the vertical temperature gradient. 相似文献
16.
Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Organized Structures within and above Explicitly Resolved Cube Arrays 总被引:2,自引:12,他引:2
Large-eddy simulations have been performed for fully developed turbulent flow within and above explicitly resolved simple cube arrays. The results from our model, hereafter LES-CITY, are shown to agree with laboratory experiments. We investigated the systematic influence of cube density on turbulent flow characteristics by performing numerical experiments for cube areal densities from 0 to 44%. The following results were obtained: (1) The dispersive momentum flux was quite large within the canopy layer due to a mean stream re-circulation, whereas it was smaller above the canopy. The spatial variation of temporally averaged momentum in the roughness sub-layer was 20% or less of the total kinematic surface drag. (2) The temporally and spatially-averaged flow structure confirmed the existence of conventionally described canyon flow regimes; isolated, interfacial, and wake. However, the intermittency of the canyon flow for all cube densities was quite large and the stream patterns were never persistent. (3) Turbulent organized structures (TOS) similar to those observed in turbulent surface-layer flows were simulated, which are characterized by longitudinally-elongated low speed streaks and the corresponding shorter streamwise vortices. The streaks in sparse and dense canopy flows were likely to be aligned to the street line and to the roof lines, respectively. Such heterogeneity of TOS partially accounts for the large spatial variation of momentum flux. (4) In contrast to the mixing layer analogy of vegetation flows, the TOS and the resulting turbulent statistics of urban flow above the canopy resembled those in surface layers. The recirculation within the canopy significantly influenced the turbulent statistical properties. 相似文献
17.
Andres Simón-Moral Jose Luis Santiago E. Scott Krayenhoff Alberto Martilli 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2014,151(3):579-596
A Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes model is used to investigate the evolution of the sectional drag coefficient and turbulent length scales with the layouts of aligned arrays of cubes. Results show that the sectional drag coefficient is determined by the non-dimensional streamwise distance (sheltering parameter), and the non-dimensional spanwise distance (channelling parameter) between obstacles. This is different than previous approaches that consider only plan area density $(\lambda _\mathrm{p})$ . On the other hand, turbulent length scales behave similarly to the staggered case (e. g. they are function of $\lambda _\mathrm{p}$ only). Analytical formulae are proposed for the length scales and for the sectional drag coefficient as a function of sheltering and channelling parameters, and implemented in a column model. This approach demonstrates good skill in the prediction of vertical profiles of the spatially-averaged horizontal wind speed. 相似文献
18.
19.
We present a numerical simulation of drag partition over rough surfaces. A computational fluid dynamics model is applied with high resolution to simulatingturbulent flows over arrays of roughness elements positioned on asmooth surface. The skin drag on the surface and the pressure drag on the roughnesselements are computed. The simulated drag partition compares well with wind-tunnelmeasurements and theoretical estimates for similar rough surfaces. This confirms that the computational approach offers an alternative to wind-tunnel and field experiments in studying drag and drag partition. The model is then applied to studying drag partition over rough surfaces with various roughness configurations. It is shown that drag partition depends not only on the magnitude of the roughness frontal area but also on the sizes and arrangement of roughness elements, because (1) the pressure drag coefficient is sensitive to roughness-element dimensions and (2) the arragement of roughness elements lead to different interferences of turbulent wakes. The impact ofthe latter factor is not insignificant. 相似文献
20.
Large-Eddy Simulation of Flows over Random Urban-like Obstacles 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Further to our previous large-eddy simulation (LES) of flow over a staggered array of uniform cubes, a simulation of flow
over random urban-like obstacles is presented. To gain a deeper insight into the effects of randomness in the obstacle topology,
the current results, e.g. spatially-averaged mean velocity, Reynolds stresses, turbulence kinetic energy and dispersive stresses,
are compared with our previous LES data and direct numerical simulation data of flow over uniform cubes. Significantly different
features in the turbulence statistics are observed within and immediately above the canopy, although there are some similarities
in the spatially-averaged statistics. It is also found that the relatively high pressures on the tallest buildings generate
contributions to the total surface drag that are far in excess of their proportionate frontal area within the array. Details
of the turbulence characteristics (like the stress anisotropy) are compared with those in regular roughness arrays and attempts
to find some generality in the turbulence statistics within the canopy region are discussed. 相似文献