Wind Engineering Groups Form Benchmark Committee

By DE Editors

With two other European organizations, the International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE) formed an organizing committee and international advisory board to focus on investigating a Benchmark for Aerodynamics of a Rectangular 5:1 Cylinder (BARC).

The aim of this benchmark is to provide a contribution to the analysis of the turbulent, separated flow around a fixed rectangular cylinder with chord-to-depth ratio equal to 5. The results provided by the participants will create a database to be made available to the scientific and technical communities for future reference.

In spite of the simple geometry, it is believed to be of interest not only for fundamental research, but also to provide useful information on the aerodynamics of a range of bluff bodies in engineering applications. Given the possible interest of both research institutions and industries operating in different fields of engineering, using both computational and experimental tools, the benchmark addresses both numerical and experimental approaches.

The aims of the benchmark problem are to investigate one specific problem in the aerodynamics of bluff bodies; to assess the consistency of wind tunnel measurements in different facilities; to assess the consistency of computational results obtained through different flow models and numerical approaches; to compare experimental and computational results; and to assess the possibility of developing integrated procedures relying on both experimental and computational outcomes.

For further details, go to BARC.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.