Aeroelastisk Respons af Højhuse
Student thesis: Master Thesis and HD Thesis
- Anders Trondal Svendsen
- Allan Michaelsen
4. term, Structural and Civil Engineering, Master (Master Programme)
The present report deals with the aeroelastic response of high-rise buildings. The
wind flow around an assumed square cylindrical high-rise building is modeled using
the commercial CFD-program Ansys CFX 11. To model the Fluid-Structure
Interaction (FSI) a FEM beam model is used to represent the structure while the
dynamic model is set up using a modal representation.
A method for generating 3D meshes suitable for exterior flow around a rectangular
cylindrical building is presented, with basis in an algorithm for generating
2D meshes using a hyperbolic grid generation scheme. Some simple mechanisms
to ensure a smoother mesh are presented as well. The difference between using
structured and unstructured meshes are analyzed, and it is concluded that use
of structured meshes is superior with respect to computation time.
An analysis is then performed to see, which methods for governing mesh stiffness
during mesh deformations in Ansys-CFX is best, and on basis of 2D analyses it
is concluded that the use of the reciprocal of the wall distance as stiffness parameter,
or use of the built-in function ’Increase Near Boundaries’ show superior
performance.
Due to limited availability of computational power in the project, analyses are
made determining the effects of using simulation settings that are less than ideal.
In these analyses it is shown that these delimitations show little influence on the
loads on the building in the streamwise direction, but that the loads in the cross
stream direction show strong dependency.
The effect of modeling the aeroelastic response of a high-rise building is determined,
by comparing the response of two different simulations, one where the
structure is allowed to move freely, and one where it is stationary. It is concluded
that there is an obvious difference between the two methods.
Finally the aeroelastic load response of a high-rise building are obtained by use
of flutter derivatives, and it is shown that this method gives qualitatively good
results, and seems applicable to use on high-rise buildings. The response is found
using the two first eigenmodes only, and the effects of including more eigenmodes
is not analyzed.
Language | English |
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Publication date | 2008 |
Number of pages | 254 |
Publishing institution | Aalborg Universitet |