Two-dimensional simulation of large-scale wind field via a joint wavenumber-frequency power spectrum

Abstract

The demand of large span spatial structures is booming in developing countries as their urbanization processes keep steady pace. These structures are characterized with long-span roofs, which probably will suffer wind-induced damages in their lifecycles because of their flexible natures and harmful aerodynamic actions caused by complicated forms of roof surface and stochastic wind field around them. Relevant studies are yet relatively rare in history. The recently proposed wavenumberfrequency joint PSD based spectral representation method (WN-SRM) has greatly reduced the computational burden of traditional wind field simulation methods, which makes possible for performing stochastic wind field simulation for large size structures. This paper presents a two-dimensional, homogeneous wind field simulation for a long-span, unevenly curved roof structure. The results show that the improved spectral representation method, i.e. WN-SRM works well in wind field simulation for flexible, long-span roof structure in terms of efficiency and effectiveness.