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CFD investigation of wind turbulence on 2D square and angle section

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Bibliographic record

VenueeScholarship@McGill (McGill) · 2016
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicWind and Air Flow Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTurbulenceAerodynamicsWind engineeringSection (typography)Computational fluid dynamicsFlow (mathematics)Square (algebra)Aerodynamic forceOverhead (engineering)
DOInot available

Abstract

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Aerodynamic forces due to air flow are a crucial and intrinsic part of analysis and design for modern structures of various uses. Dynamic wind forces acting on the structure can be predicted during the planning and design phase either experimentally, by carrying out the experiments on its scaled-down prototype in a wind tunnel, or computationally, by numerical simulation of air flow around the structure using mathematical models that explain the fluid flow. The National Building Code of Canada (NBC) contains guidelines to determine the wind load on various types and shapes of structural elements, using a net force formula that takes into account the dynamic effects of the wind. The guidelines are based on wind tunnel experiments but according to the NBC commentaries, realistic wind velocity profiles and turbulence were not simulated in those experiments that were conducted many decades ago, for the most part. Due to the shortcomings of the experimental data, the code mentions that the proposed calculation method should be used with caution. Using the latest computational technologies available, the accuracy of the data can be validated. Since it is difficult and expensive to carry out wind tunnel tests systematically on various structural shapes covered in NBC, the computational approach offers a good alternative to revisit these wind effect predictions on simple shapes. Such a computational study is conducted here where two cross-sectional shapes, a square and an equal leg angle shape, are modeled in both laminar and turbulent wind flows using a commercial fluid dynamics finite element software. A computational parametric study was carried out for the chosen Spalart Allmaras turbulent model on angle sections to study the effects of turbulence intensity, angle of attack and time step on the results

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.212
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2016
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