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Surface Wind Pressure Distribution of Molten-Salt Power Tower by CFD Analysis

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Molten-salt towers can help society archive the sustainable development goals and allow more older, dirtier fossil fuel plants to retire. The distribution of surface wind pressure on molten-salt power should be carefully considered to provide a guidance to structural designers. In this paper, the numerical wind tunnel simulation of the molten-salt power tower was performed by using CFD technology. The accuracy of the application of CFD technology is verified based on the CAARC standard high-rise building model. The parameters considered in the validation analysis are computational domain size, mesh generation method, turbulence model, and boundary conditions. Then CFD analysis was performed to investigate the wind velocity, streamline, and pressure distribution of the molten-salt tower. In addition, the average wind pressure coefficients of the tower under various basic wind pressures and geometric sizes of the receivers are discussed. It indicted variations in the basic wind pressures and the receiver diameters have a clear effect on the mutations of the average coefficients on the vertical and horizontal lines, while the changes of the receiver heights have little influence.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11902161) and Nanjing Building System Project of China (Ks1717).

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China

    Weiwei Sun

  2. College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Xinjiang University, Xinjiang, 830047, China

    Zhenping Wang

  3. National Key Laboratory of Transient Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China

    Jun Feng

  4. China Energy Engineering Group Jiangsu Power Design Institute Co., Ltd,, Nanjing, 211102, China

    Wentao Gu

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Sun, W., Wang, Z., Feng, J. et al. Surface Wind Pressure Distribution of Molten-Salt Power Tower by CFD Analysis. Arab J Sci Eng 47, 12497–12507 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-021-06501-x

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