Study of Air Flow Around Cooling Towers

In tihi s research the effect of Vl,1.nd on the Outersurfaces of bigh cooling towers was studied and its stabilityunder ”tr..e variation of wind veloci tyT~2e tests were carried out using an open jet wind tunnelwhich VlaS de sd.gne d for this purpose at the Fluid Mechanicslaboratory, Faculty of Eng.i.nee rLng , Ain Shams University?Four small scale cooling tower models, which are largelyused in them.e l power stations and industrial plants, weredesigned1- To obtain tre pressure distribution at different sectionsfo:[’ ea eh tower at different wi.nd ve Loc.l.tri.e s and at differentgap vridthsG2,.., To o”btain the velocity profile s r-ound the cooling towers~ .3- Flew visualization around the cooling tower body u stng thetruf +- .he chn.l q” ev L v V _Ll..J.. \,.’_ _~Thq ::!:9sults of this research were:An expression for the velocity profile s around the coolingtower was deduced”