Abstract
Wind-driven rain (WDR) is a natural phenomenon, which occurs, when rain droplets descend through a wind flow field, creating an angle with the vertical and affects any structure by impingement through the structural envelope. Existing literatures on wind-driven rain effect on structure, are focused on building envelop only. There is a huge scope, left unexplored, on studying the interaction response of squat, open top, circular tank with wind-driven rain. This available scope is the main motivation of the present authors behind this study. The present study has been conducted through fluid–structure interaction (FSI) analysis, by coupling computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of a multi-phase fluid system involving air and water to simulate wind-driven rain, with the mechanical analysis of the tank structure, by importing the wall pressure, assessed from CFD model of WDR. This study is focused on ground-supported, open-top, squat, circular tank with a slenderness ratio of 0.5. The internal and external pressure distributions on the tank wall have been assessed for WDR and compared with the same caused by wind. The radius (R): thickness (t) ratio of the tank wall has been varied from 125 to 500, in order to understand the impact of wind-driven rain on the tank wall deformation. The comparative study of pressure distribution between WDR and wind (only) cases clearly demonstrates that the wall pressure (internal and external) due to wind-driven rain, is higher than wind (only). It has been observed that the wall deformation is showing an incremental pattern with the decrement of wall thickness. The maximum deformation zone has been observed at the upper half of the frontal area. Higher deformation zone for R/t ratios 500, 250, 166.67, and 125, can be seen for 0° to 40°, 0° to 37°, 0° to 35°, and 0° to 32°, peripherally.
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