Study on a Modeling and Meshing Method in Numerical Simulation for Wind Loads on Antennas
In this paper, a sort of modeling and meshing method based on the characteristic size of antennas is put forward, which can be used to numerically compute the wind loads. Based on the Reynolds-averaged N-S equations and Renormalization Group k-ε turbulence model (RNG k-ε), the wind loads on antenna...
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Published in | Applied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 159; pp. 287 - 291 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Zurich
Trans Tech Publications Ltd
01.03.2012
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Summary: | In this paper, a sort of modeling and meshing method based on the characteristic size of antennas is put forward, which can be used to numerically compute the wind loads. Based on the Reynolds-averaged N-S equations and Renormalization Group k-ε turbulence model (RNG k-ε), the wind loads on antenna are computed in considering of some modeling parameters, such as the sizes of computational domain, grid size. Through the comparison between the results obtained by numerical computation and the ideal value derived by wind tunnel tests, the method of modeling and meshing the computational domain has proved to be effective, and the fitted curves of the drag coefficients show that the computational results for wind loads on antennas will be more accurate if the large sizes of the computational domain and little sizes of the grid are adopted. |
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Bibliography: | Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2012 International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Systems (AMTS 2012), April 17, 2012, Wuhan, China |
ISBN: | 3037853875 9783037853870 |
ISSN: | 1660-9336 1662-7482 1662-7482 |
DOI: | 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.159.287 |