Study of Wind Action Effects on the Solar Panels Placed on Parking Areas

摘要

Studies have been developed all over the world regarding the evaluation of the wind action on solarpanels, placed single or in arrays of elements, justified by the lack of comprehensive recommendations in the codes of practice regarding these specific situations. Placing the solar panels in consecutive rows on parking places is an alternative which has never been covered by codes for wind actions on structures. An original analysis is developed in the present paper considering the distribution of wind pressures on solar panels mounted abovethe large car parking places, where their presence would bring economy in construction while protecting and increasing the comfort of the parking space. Two constructive solutions have been considered and analysed through physical modelling and testing in atmospheric boundary layer tunnel and a numerical simulation in ANSYS 12 CFX program was in parallel run for a visualization of the flow field characteristics.