Disturbance effect is one of the important factors for wind damage to large cooling towers.Existing studies on the wind-induced interference of cooling tower groups are aimed at the same size and the lack of wind-indu...Disturbance effect is one of the important factors for wind damage to large cooling towers.Existing studies on the wind-induced interference of cooling tower groups are aimed at the same size and the lack of wind-induced interference effects between cooling towers of different sizes.With the background of the additional cooling tower project at Shandong Luxi Power Plant in China,the rigid body pressure wind tunnel test is carried out to obtain 194 conditions for the three combinations of the existing four-tower combination(small size),the new two-tower combination(large size)and the six-tower combination surface wind pressure distribution.Numerical simulation of the surrounding flow field of the cooling tower group with the most unfavorable interference condition of the six-tower combination is conducted using the computational fluid dynamics(CFD)method.Based on this,the characteristics of the average and pulsating wind pressure distribution of the cooling tower surface under the six-tower combination are mainly studied,and the load interference coefficients of the large-sized cooling tower and the small-sized cooling tower under the three tower group combinations are compared.The velocity flow field and vorticity changes around the cooling tower group at unfavorable wind angles are analyzed,and the wind-induced interference mechanism between cooling tower groups of different sizes is mainly refined.Research shows that the interference effect between such cooling tower groups of different sizes is much larger than that of cooling tower groups of the same size,which is specifically manifested as the enhancement effect of small-sized cooling towers and the shielding effect of large-sized cooling towers.The interference coefficient of large-sized cooling tower groups increases by 28%,and the interference coefficient of small-sized cooling tower groups decreases by 6.4%.The airflow acceleration caused by the pinch effect between small-sized cooling tower groups has an adverse effect on large-sized cooling towers and can significantly increase the magnitude of local wind load.The shielding effect of large-sized cooling towers can reduce the overall wind load of small-sized cooling towers.The research conclusions can provide the basis of wind load value design for wind resistance design of such large cooling tower addition projects.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundations(Nos. 51878351, U1733129,51761165022)the Outstanding Youth Fund of Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation(No. BK20160083).
文摘Disturbance effect is one of the important factors for wind damage to large cooling towers.Existing studies on the wind-induced interference of cooling tower groups are aimed at the same size and the lack of wind-induced interference effects between cooling towers of different sizes.With the background of the additional cooling tower project at Shandong Luxi Power Plant in China,the rigid body pressure wind tunnel test is carried out to obtain 194 conditions for the three combinations of the existing four-tower combination(small size),the new two-tower combination(large size)and the six-tower combination surface wind pressure distribution.Numerical simulation of the surrounding flow field of the cooling tower group with the most unfavorable interference condition of the six-tower combination is conducted using the computational fluid dynamics(CFD)method.Based on this,the characteristics of the average and pulsating wind pressure distribution of the cooling tower surface under the six-tower combination are mainly studied,and the load interference coefficients of the large-sized cooling tower and the small-sized cooling tower under the three tower group combinations are compared.The velocity flow field and vorticity changes around the cooling tower group at unfavorable wind angles are analyzed,and the wind-induced interference mechanism between cooling tower groups of different sizes is mainly refined.Research shows that the interference effect between such cooling tower groups of different sizes is much larger than that of cooling tower groups of the same size,which is specifically manifested as the enhancement effect of small-sized cooling towers and the shielding effect of large-sized cooling towers.The interference coefficient of large-sized cooling tower groups increases by 28%,and the interference coefficient of small-sized cooling tower groups decreases by 6.4%.The airflow acceleration caused by the pinch effect between small-sized cooling tower groups has an adverse effect on large-sized cooling towers and can significantly increase the magnitude of local wind load.The shielding effect of large-sized cooling towers can reduce the overall wind load of small-sized cooling towers.The research conclusions can provide the basis of wind load value design for wind resistance design of such large cooling tower addition projects.
