Reproducing the flight behavior of falling debris from railway tunnel vault using a high-speed train ejection experiment and moving-overset-mesh simulation

E Deng, YK Liu, WC Yang, YQ Ni - Tunnelling and Underground Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
Falling debris in high-speed railway tunnels is a prevalent and serious safety concern.
Debris falling from tunnel vaults may impact the train surfaces, pantographs and window …

An automatized methodology to generate velocity distortion panels for wind tunnel testing

A Broatch, X Margot, J García-Tíscar… - Journal of Wind …, 2022 - Elsevier
Replicating the actual velocity distribution that a target will experience in real life is
sometimes necessary to perform realistic aerodynamic characterizations in wind tunnels. In …

Flight characteristics of rod-shaped windborne debris objects in atmospheric boundary layer winds

D Saini, B Shafei - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
The presented study explored the flight characteristics of rod-shaped debris objects in
neutrally-stratified atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) winds. Despite the fact that rod-shaped …

Exploration of Boundary Layer Transition Through Various Roughness Patterns

M Mallick, J Choudhary, A Mohanta… - Conference on Fluid …, 2022 - Springer
The current study focuses on experimental investigations of boundary layer thickness
carried out in an open-circuit wind tunnel with various roughness patterns. For a wind tunnel …