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Wind and Structures Volume 28, Number 2, February 2019 , pages 111-128 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/was.2019.28.2.111 |
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An efficient optimization approach for wind interference effect on octagonal tall building |
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Rony Kar, Sujit Kumar Dalui and Soumya Bhattacharjya
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| Abstract | ||
| In this paper an octagon plan shaped building (study building) in presence of three square plan shaped building is subjected to boundary layer wind flow and the interference effects on the study building is investigated using Computational fluid dynamics. The variation of the pressure coefficients on different faces of the octagon building is studied both in isolated and interference conditions. Interference Factors (IF) are calculated for different faces of the study building which can be a powerful tool for designing similar plan shaped buildings in similar conditions. A metamodel of the IF, in terms of the distances among buildings is also established using Response Surface Method (RSM). This set of equations are optimized to get the optimum values of the distances where the IF is unity. An upstream Interference zone for this building setup and wind environment is established from these data. Uncertainty principle is also utilised to determine the optimum positions of the interfering buildings considering the uncertain nature of wind flow for minimum interference effect. The proposed procedure is observed to be computationally efficient in deciding optimum layout at buildings often required in city planning. The results show that the proposed RSM-based optimization approach captures the interference zone accurately with substantially less number of experiments. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| computational fluid dynamics; interference factor; interference zone; optimization; pressure coefficient; response surface method; tall building | ||
| Address | ||
| Rony Kar, Sujit Kumar Dalui and Soumya Bhattacharjya: Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah – 711103, India | ||