Wind Interference Effect of Neighbouring Square Buildings in Rhombic Arrangement on an Octagonal Building

Abstract

Four square plan shaped tall buildings of the same height and lateral dimension are positioned at the vertices of a rhombus. The octagonal plan shaped tall building of same height is placed at the centroid of the rhombus. The wind-induced responses of the octagonal plan shaped tall building for specified interference cases are compared with that of the isolated cases. The octagonal plan shaped principal building is exposed to atmospheric boundary layer wind flow. The wind angle varies from 0° to 90° at an interval of 15° for both isolated and interfering conditions. Computational fluid dynamics is implemented to simulate the effect of wind-structure interaction on the principal and neighbouring buildings in the boundary layer wind flow. The wind-induced static responses like drag and lift coefficients, pressure coefficients for isolated and interference cases are evaluated and compared graphically. The responses of isolated and interference cases vary significantly with the varying wind incidence angle. The dynamic behaviour of wind is also thoroughly investigated to identify the adverse local effect on the different faces of the octagonal building. As the characterisation of wind-induced dynamic responses, peak pressure coefficients and power spectral densities are evaluated and plotted accordingly. The peak pressure coefficients are plotted against mean pressure coefficients. The power spectral densities for different interfering cases are compared with the isolated case. Significant variation in power spectral densities is observed in some cases, which portrays the different characteristics for formation and shedding of the vortices in the wake of the octagonal building. The comparison of various dynamic responses between isolated and interfering cases highlights the interference by the square plan shaped buildings.