It’s All Relative: How Time, Distance, and Wind Speed Relate in the Wind Tunnel
By Yarrow Fewless, Principal, CPP Wind Engineering Time, distance, and wind speed are intrinsically linked in the wind tunnel, as they are in the real world. So how can you relate a building tested at a scale of 1:300 in the wind tunnel to the real-world building? The answer is that the relationship of distance…