Wind Interference Effect on Tall Building

When a building is located in an urban area, it is
exposed to a wind of different characteristics then wind over an open
terrain. This is development of turbulent wake region behind an
upstream building. The interaction with upstream building can
produce significant changes in the response of the tall building. Here,
in this paper, an attempt has been made to study wind induced
interference effects on tall building. In order to study wind induced
interference effect (IF) on Tall Building, initially a tall building
(which is termed as Principal Building now on wards) with square
plan shape has been considered with different Height to Width Ratio
and total drag force is obtained considering different terrain
conditions as well as different incident wind direction. Then total
drag force on Principal Building is obtained by considering adjacent
building which is termed as Interfering Building now on wards with
different terrain conditions and incident wind angle. To execute
study, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Code namely Fluent
and Gambit have been used.

• Atul K. Desai
• Jigar K. Sevalia
• Sandip A. Vasanwala

• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Tall Building
• Turbulent
• Wake Region
• Wind.

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