Wind Driven Rain on Building Facades Sheltered by Trees


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Date

2025

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Conference Paper

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Abstract

Trees intercept wind driven rain reducing the total throughfall rain on ground and building facades. The rain throughfall is modelled using a multiphase Eulerian wind driven rain model introducing a sink term in the mass balance which accounts for the intercepted rain. The model is calibrated with field experiments. Trees not only reduce the wind driven rain catch ratio on ground and facade but may also increase the rain load on the facade and the ground in close proximity to the trees, due to rearrangement of wind flow field and droplet trajectories.

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published

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Multiphysics and Multiscale Building Physics

Volume

552

Pages / Article No.

159 - 164

Publisher

Springer

Event

9th International Building Physics Conference (IBPC 2024)

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First Edition

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Wind driven rain; Tree rain interception; Wind and rain sheltering

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Conference lecture held on July 25, 2024.

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