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Turbulent flow around rectangular bodies and the CAARC high-rise building (ExaQUte)

Simulation 5.6 GB

Source files, data and metadata of ExaQUte simulations of turbulent flow around rectangular bodies and the CAARC high-rise building with stochastic inlets. Useful as wind-engineering CFD case setups and output.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.5729258
Licence
CC BY 4.0 Free to use and share, including commercially, as long as you credit the creators.
Size
5.6 GB · 5.6 GB; several cases

How to cite

Ayoul-Guilmard, Q., Badia, R. M., Ejarque, J., Ganesh, S., Kodakkal, A., Nobile, F., Núñez, M., Pons-Prats, J., Principe, J., & Rossi, R. (2021). ExaQUte Data [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5729258

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Details

Resource
Simulation output, Case setup
Method
LES, RANS
Geometry
Single building
Topic
Wind loads & pedestrian wind
Quantities
Velocity, Pressure / Cp, Turbulence statistics
Codes / models
Kratos
Year
2021
Creators
Quentin Ayoul-Guilmard; Rosa M. Badia; Jorge Ejarque; Sundar Ganesh; Anoop Kodakkal; Fabio Nobile; Marc Núñez; Jordi Pons-Prats; Javier Principe; Riccardo Rossi
Institution
BSC; CIMNE; EPFL; TUM; UPC

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