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Structural Engineering and Mechanics Volume 70, Number 4, May25 2019 , pages 479-497 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2019.70.4.479 |
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A study on the working mechanism of internal pressure of super-large cooling towers based on two-way coupling between wind and rain |
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Shitang Ke, Wenlin Yu and Yaojun Ge
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| Abstract | ||
| In the current code design, the use of a uniform internal pressure coefficient of cooling towers as internal suction cannot reflect the 3D characteristics of flow field inside the tower body with different ventilation rate of shutters. Moreover, extreme weather such as heavy rain also has a direct impact on aerodynamic force on the internal surface and changes the turbulence effect of pulsating wind. In this study, the world\'s tallest cooling tower under construction, which stands 210m, is taken as the research object. The algorithm for two-way coupling between wind and rain is adopted. Simulation of wind field and raindrops is performed iteratively using continuous phase and discrete phase models, respectively, under the general principles of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Firstly, the rule of influence of 9 combinations of wind speed and rainfall intensity on the volume of wind-driven rain, additional action force of raindrops and equivalent internal pressure coefficient of the tower body is analyzed. The combination of wind velocity and rainfall intensity that is most unfavorable to the cooling tower in terms of distribution of internal pressure coefficient is identified. On this basis, the wind/rain loads, distribution of aerodynamic force and working mechanism of internal pressures of the cooling tower under the most unfavorable working condition are compared between the four ventilation rates of shutters (0%, 15%, 30% and 100%). The results show that the amount of raindrops captured by the internal surface of the tower decreases as the wind velocity increases, and increases along with the rainfall intensity and ventilation rate of the shutters. The maximum value of rain-induced pressure coefficient is 0.013. The research findings lay the basis for determining the precise values of internal surface loads of cooling tower under extreme weather conditions. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| super-large cooling tower; two-way coupling between wind and rain; CFD; combination of wind velocity and rainfall intensity; pressure distribution on the internal surface | ||
| Address | ||
| Shitang Ke: Department of Civil Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Yudao Road, Nanjing 210016, China Wenlin Yu: Jiangsu Power Design Institute Co., LTD, China Energy Engineering Group, 58-3 Suyuan Road, Nanjing 211102, China Yaojun Ge: State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China | ||