Analysis of fluid-structure interaction of a torus subjected to wind loads

Agnieszka Padewska; Piotr Szczepaniak; Andrzej Wawrzynek

Agnieszka Padewska Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Piotr Szczepaniak Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Andrzej Wawrzynek Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

Abstract

In the paper the aerodynamic forces acting on a part of a water slide or other object with curved, tubular shape, depending on the section of a torus and value of the wind velocity, were obtained. This was done by means of finite element method (FEM) and finite volume method (FVM) computer simulations, using modules: computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and fluid-structure interaction (FSI) and taking into account the Eurocode EN 1991-1-4.

Keywords

fluid-structure interaction, water slide, wind action, CFD, FSI, FEM, FVM,

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