The aim of this work was to understand the effect of tall buildings on vortices system in an urban region. Wind tunnel experiments with flow visualization and injection smoke techniques were carried out to analyze the flow pattern in an idealized urban region formed with six rectangular prismatic buildings. These scale model buildings (1/100) were arranged in a symmetric configuration with different aspect ratio H/W.O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi analisar os efeitos que prédios altos podem causar no sistema de vórtices de uma área urbana. Foram realizados experimentos de túnel de vento com a técnica de injeção direta de fumaça para visualização do padrão do escoamento. Os modelos em escala reduzida (1/100) foram dispostos de forma simétrica em relação à rua e com diferentes espaçamentos entre eles

Cezana, Fernanda

Föeger, Lizandra

Gomes, Marcos

Goulart, Elisa

Paula, Reginaldo

Stocco, Jamily

Ciência e Natura

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DOI: 10.5902/2179460X11697 Revista do Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas - UFSM Revista Ciência e Natura, Santa Maria EISSN: 2179-460X, Edição Esp. Dez. 2013, p. 514 - 519   514 Ciência e Natura Edição Especial VIII Workshop Brasileiro de Micrometeorologia EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF THE FLOW PATTERNS IN URBAN STREET CANYONS – PART I: TALL BUILDINGS Reginaldo R. C. de Paula1,*, Jamily F. Stocco2; Lizandra B. Föeger2, Fernanda C. Cezana3, Elisa V. Goulart3, Marcos S. P. Gomes4 1Mechanical Technical Department, Ifes, Vitoria, ES, Brazil 2Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Department, Ifes, Vitoria, ES, Brazil 3 Environmental Engineering Department, Ufes, Vitoria, ES, Brazil 4Mechanical Engineering Department, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro Brazil *cottoreginaldo@gmail.com  ABSTRACT The aim of this work was to understand the effect of tall buildings on vortices system in an urban region. Wind tunnel experiments with flow visualization and injection smoke techniques were carried out to analyze the flow pattern in an idealized urban region formed with six rectangular prismatic buildings. These scale model buildings (1/100) were arranged in a symmetric configuration with different aspect ratio H/W.   RESUMO O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi analisar os efeitos que prédios altos podem causar no sistema de vórtices de uma área urbana. Foram realizados experimentos de túnel de vento com a técnica de injeção direta de fumaça para visualização do padrão do escoamento. Os modelos em escala reduzida (1/100) foram dispostos de forma simétrica em relação à rua e com diferentes espaçamentos entre eles.   INTRODUCTION Pollutants emitted from motor vehicles, gases from unexpected accidents and exhaust stacks, are sources of anthropogenic pollutants in urban areas. Due to their adverse effect in human health, various studies have been conducted to analyze the flow field patterns in urban areas, because ambient wind is responsible for the dispersion and transport DOI: 10.5902/2179460X11697 Revista do Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas - UFSM Revista Ciência e Natura, Santa Maria EISSN: 2179-460X, Edição Esp. Dez. 2013, p. 514 - 519   515 Ciência e Natura Edição Especial VIII Workshop Brasileiro de Micrometeorologia of atmospheric pollutants. The building configurations such as street and building aspect ratios are important factors in this flow regime.  In recent years physical experiments and numerical simulation have been directed towards the study of the canyon flow regimes. Louka et al. (1998) performed field experiments to investigate the turbulent airflow in street canyons and its coupling to the turbulent airflow above roof. Yassin (2011) studied the impact of the roof profile and roof height on wind flow and vehicle exhaust within urban canyons by using the standard - turbulence model. In the present work wind tunnel experiments and flow visualization techniques were used to investigate the flow patterns in an idealized urban region.   MATERIAL AND METHODS The flow considered in this work was investigated in an open return wind tunnel with test section (2.0  0.5  0.5) m located at Energy Laboratory of Ifes, Vitoria, Brazil. The direction of the wind was perpendicular to the surface of the obstacles. Six scale model prismatic rectangular buildings (1/100) were arranged in a symmetric configuration with three different distances between them. A smoke machine and injections methods were utilized for the flow visualization. Video recordings were made with digital camera with speed of 240 fps. A green laser (500 mW) passing through a semi-cylindrical lens was used to illuminate the vicinity of the buildings. Measurements of the velocity vertical profile of wind were obtained with a Pitot-static tube with probe of 3 mm diameter (TSI EBT720). Figure 1 shows the localization of measured wind velocities at the center line of the wind tunnel (y/H = 0.0) and on the top of buildings (y/H = 0.5). These points were represented by X0, X1, X2, X3, X4, X5 and X6.   Figure 1. Schematic of urban street-canyon model arrangement with rectangular prismatic buildings and wind flow direction. DOI: 10.5902/2179460X11697 Revista do Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas - UFSM Revista Ciência e Natura, Santa Maria EISSN: 2179-460X, Edição Esp. Dez. 2013, p. 514 - 519   516 Ciência e Natura Edição Especial VIII Workshop Brasileiro de Micrometeorologia RESULTS  Figure 2 shows the flow patterns corresponding to H/W2 = 4.0. Oncoming flow impinge on the frontal face of the first building, producing stagnation point and forming a standing vortex which was induced by flow separation, see Fig. 2(a). From the flow visualization was possible to capture the vortex-shedding phenomenon, near the top edge of the upwind building, see Fig. 2(a) and (b). Bellow the top of buildings there were generated a complex flow pattern with three dominant rotating vortex structures.     (a)                                                   (b)                                                (c) Figure 2. Side view x – z plane at H/W2 = 4.0: (a) flow in incident region; (b) flow between first and second buildings and (c) flow between second and third buildings.  Figure 3 shows the flow patterns corresponding to H/W2 = 2.0. Similar to flow pattern at H/W2 = 1.0, a vertical roll vortex near ground on frontal face of the first building was also generated. The vortex shedding formation and various larger and small vortex structures within buildings spacing is clearly visible, see Figs. 3(a) and (b).  Figure 4 shows the flow patterns at H/W2 = 1.33. On windward face of the first building was observed the formation of vortex near the stagnation point, see Fig. 4(a). This was clearly indication that on the upper one-half of the frontal face the flow was directed upward over the roof and on the lower surface the flow was driven toward the ground forming the vertical standing vortex. During flow experiments it was observed that vortex system behind upwind building had a weak interference on the downwind building flow.   DOI: 10.5902/2179460X11697 Revista do Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas - UFSM Revista Ciência e Natura, Santa Maria EISSN: 2179-460X, Edição Esp. Dez. 2013, p. 514 - 519   517 Ciência e Natura Edição Especial VIII Workshop Brasileiro de Micrometeorologia   (a)                                         (b)                                                    (c) Figure 3. Side view x – z plane at H/W2 = 2.0: (a) flow in incident region; (b) flow between first and second buildings and (c) flow between second and third buildings.         (a)                                            (b)                                                     (c) Figure 4. Side view x – z plane at H/W2 = 1.33: (a) flow in incident region; (b) flow between first and second buildings and (c) flow between second and third buildings.  Figure 5 shows the flow in the y – z plane besides the first building at H/W2 = 4.0; 2.0 and 0.633. Results showed the typical horseshoe vortex at the side wall of the obstacles caused by the adverse pressure gradient of the stagnation flow in the frontal face of the first building. Figure 6 shows the flow in the x – y plane near the ground (z = 0.05 m) between first and second buildings at H/W2 = 4.0; 2.0 and 1.33. The x-y plane at H/W2 = 4.0 wind flow shows symmetric double vortex with circulations opposite to each other, as see Fig. 6(a). In Figure 6(c) is evidence that wind flow behind upwind building has a weak interference on the downwind building flow at H/W2 = 1.33.   DOI: 10.5902/2179460X11697 Revista do Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas - UFSM Revista Ciência e Natura, Santa Maria EISSN: 2179-460X, Edição Esp. Dez. 2013, p. 514 - 519   518 Ciência e Natura Edição Especial VIII Workshop Brasileiro de Micrometeorologia            (a)                                      (b)                                    (c) Figure 5. Side view y – z plane of horseshoe vortex: (a) H/W2 = 4.0; (b) H/W2 = 2.0 and (c) H/W 2= 1.33.                        (a)                                  (b)                                     (c) Figure 6. Top view x – y plane of flow between first and second buildings: (a) H/W2 = 4.0; (b) H/W2 = 2.0 and (c) H/W 2= 1.33.  Figure 7 shows the normalized mean vertical velocity profile, U/Uh, at center line of wind tunnel and on the roof of the buildings, respectively, points Xo, X1, X2, X3, X4,  X5 and X6 corresponding to H/W = 1.0.   (a)                                                       (b) Figure 8. Normalized mean vertical velocity profile at H/W2 = 1.0: (a) center line of the street and (b) on the roof of the buildings. U / Uhz/Hb0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.800.20.40.60.811.21.41.61.822.22.42.62.8 x / Hb = 0.0x / Hb = 3.5x / Hb = 6.5x / Hb = 9.5U / Uhz/Hb0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.800.20.40.60.811.21.41.61.822.22.42.62.8 x / Hb = 0.0x / Hb = 3.5x / Hb = 6.5x / Hb = 9.5DOI: 10.5902/2179460X11697 Revista do Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas - UFSM Revista Ciência e Natura, Santa Maria EISSN: 2179-460X, Edição Esp. Dez. 2013, p. 514 - 519   519 Ciência e Natura Edição Especial VIII Workshop Brasileiro de Micrometeorologia  CONCLUSIONS Flow visualization for different aspect ratio, qualitatively showed that there was no fundamental change in the wind flow in frontal and side wall of the first building. All experiments exhibit the vertical standing and the horseshoe vortices systems. According to the aspect ratio, different vortex structures were identified within the canyon. At H/W2 = 2.0, the flow field was defined by interaction between both buildings occurring great turbulence. With decrease H/W2, was observed that wind flow behind upwind building has a weak interference on the downwind building flow at H/W2 = 1.33.   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and Vale Company, Brazil.  REFERENCES YASSIN, M. Impact of height and shape of building roof on air quality in urban street canyons. Atmospheric Environment, Vol.  45, pp. 5220-5229, 2011. LOUKA, P., BELCHER, S.E., HARRISON, R.G. Modified street canyon flow. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 74, pp. 485-493, 1998.  

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