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JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS
Volume 175, Issue -, Pages 428-444Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2018.03.002
Keywords
Train aerodynamics; Crosswinds; Full-scale tests; Wind tunnel tests moving model tests; CFD
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I03842X/1]
- EPSRC [EP/I03842X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In this paper a major series of experiments is described that included extensive full-scale measurements of cross wind induced pressures on the Class 43 New Measurement Train over an extended 21 month period, together with wind tunnel, moving model tests and CFD calculations, and allows, for the first time, a proper evaluation of the adequacy of these techniques. Static wind tunnel tests and moving model tests show good agreement with each other, both in terms of the measured pressure field around the train and in the overall side force per unit length over the yaw angle range from 15 to 30 degrees. Similarly the wind tunnel tests and the CFD calculations show good agreement with each other for yaw angles up to 15 degrees. Two different analyses of the full-scale data were carried out - an analysis of 1 s average wind speeds and forces, and an analysis of specific gusts. There was a very great deal of scatter in the results and only the results from simple track topographies were found to agree well with the model and computational results.
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