{"id":67,"date":"2021-02-16T07:32:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T07:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/?p=67"},"modified":"2022-10-12T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:32:01","slug":"skimming-flow-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/2021\/02\/16\/skimming-flow-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Skimming flow visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skimming flow is a typical flow regime observed between compact geometric structures. In an urban setting, skimming flow can be observed in a region known as a street canyon i.e. a region bordered by two adjacent buildings. The main characteristics of skimming flow are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The flow tends to skim over the top of the structures with reduced penetration into the canyon region.<\/li><li>The flow circulation with lower velocity is present within the canyon region.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following figures show the skimming flows produced in <strong>Paraview<\/strong> &#8211; an open-source application for flow analysis and visualization. The flows were simulated using the RANS k-epsilon model with a power-law inlet velocity. To compute the solution, the steady-state approach was applied using the simpleFoam solver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 992 \/ 480;\" width=\"992\" controls src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/files\/2021\/02\/Media1-2.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Animation of the mean flow distribution (streamwise component of the velocity) in a typical street canyon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 992 \/ 480;\" width=\"992\" controls src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/files\/2021\/02\/Media2-2.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Animation of the mean flow distribution (vertical component of the velocity) in a typical street canyon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skimming flow is a typical flow regime observed between compact geometric structures. In an urban setting, skimming flow can be observed in a region known as a street canyon i.e. a region bordered by two adjacent buildings. The main characteristics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/2021\/02\/16\/skimming-flow-visualization\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfd","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/ahmadfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}