Comparative study of the shelter efficacy of straw checkerboard barriers and rocky checkerboard barriers in a wind tunnel
Comparative study of the shelter efficacy of straw checkerboard barriers and rocky checkerboard barriers in a wind tunnel
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稻草棋盘式屏障与岩石棋盘式屏障风洞遮挡效果对比研究
DOI:
10.1016/j.aeolia.2020.100575
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发表时间:
2020
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Qinghe Niu
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作者:
Tao Wang;Jianjun Qu;Qinghe Niu
To compare the shelter efficacy of straw checkerboard barriers (SCBs) and rocky checkerboard barriers (RCBs), we measured the flow fields and sand fluxes associated with them in a wind tunnel. For both SCBs and RCBs, a deceleration zone and streamwise vortex formed inside the checkerboards, and an accelerated jet flow emerged at their top. Nevertheless, the material properties of straw and rock are tremendously different, which lead the characteristics of aeolian transport over SCBs and RCBs to be different 1) Wind velocity decreased gradually across SCBs, reached a minimum in the third checkerboard, and then kept stable; in contrast, wind velocity decreased suddenly and reached a minimum in the first RCB, while it then slightly recovered across the second and third checkerboards and finally kept stable. Moreover, the deceleration zone inside the SCBs decreased gradually as the velocity increased, but that inside the RCBs did not obviously decrease. 2) Under low velocities (= 16.0 m/s), the results were just the op- posite. Therefore, the sand stabilization efficiency of SCBs was better than RCBs when wind velocities were low, while the sand stabilization efficiency of RCBs was better than SCBs when wind velocities were high. This study indicates that SCBs are more suitable for sand fixation in weak wind areas, and RCBs are more suitable in strong wind areas.