Snow drifting and distribution around buildings with openfoam


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  • Snow Drifting and Distribution Around Buildings with OpenFOAM

Description:

The interplay between airflow and snow cover exhibits a complex coupling relationship. Over the course of hours or even days, airflow induces snow redistribution, while the redistributed snow, in turn, alters the airflow patterns. This research introduces a dynamic mesh technology that enables real-



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time updates to depict the evolution of the snow surface during prolonged snow drifting. The study employs a solver called driftScalarDyFoam, based on OpenFOAM, which divides the snow drifting process into stages and utilizes a snow transport equation to predict the spatial distribution of snow. The snow surface evolves based on an erosion-deposition model. The proposed method has been successfully validated through various measured cases, including snow distribution on a flat roof and around a building. The images and data used here are adapted from the work of: Xiaoxiao Chen, Zhixiang Yu in the article titled '[DriftScalarDyFoam: An OpenFOAM-Based Multistage Solver for Drifting Snow and Its Distribution Around Buildings]' published in the journal [Frontiers in Earth Science]. The source of the these can be found at [Link to the Source: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.822140.s027] . The images and data are licensed under CC BY 4.0 [License Link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]."


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