Improvement of Tornado Simulation by Adjusting Boundary Conditions

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

01 May 2017

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