Within this thesis, a methodology for the numerical analysis of the interaction between wind flow and membrane structures is developed. To account for the relevant factors inherent to aeroelastic behavior of light, flexible structures and turbulent air flows, an appropriate combination of physical and numerical disciplines is chosen. The wind-structure interaction is modeled by a surface-coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) method. For the numerical simulation of this multiphysics problem, a partitioned solution scheme is selected and implemented in a flexible software environment, which can be applied to various problems of fluid-structure interaction. The potential of the developed software environment is illustrated with the simulation of wind induced, aeroelastic effects on the mobile canopy structure ARIES. The significance of the results obtained is discussed and the method is placed in the framework of wind engineering.
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Within this thesis, a methodology for the numerical analysis of the interaction between wind flow and membrane structures is developed. To account for the relevant factors inherent to aeroelastic behavior of light, flexible structures and turbulent air flows, an appropriate combination of physical and numerical disciplines is chosen. The wind-structure interaction is modeled by a surface-coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) method. For the numerical simulation of this multiphysics problem,...
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