Holdo A.E. Houghton E.L. Bhinder F.S.
Year:
1982
Bibliographic info:
Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 1982 vol.10 p.103-115

Describes results from wind-tunnel tests on models of the Building Research Establishment's experimental building at Aylesbury. The use of several scale models of this building in uniform and in simulated atmospheric boundary-layer flows together with the results from the full-scale experiments allow an assessment of the effect of variations in the ratio of the longitudinal- turbulence integral length scale to body dimension. This confirms that the values of this ratio have to be modelled correctly even in a non-homogenous non-isotropic turbulent flow in order to obtain model results that are representative of the full-scale situation. The present results also appear to confirm explanations given for similar results for homogeneous isotropic turbulent flows.