Orthogonal-based wavelet analysis of wind turbulence and correlation between turbulence and forces

Abstract

Recent models of wind turbulence and turbulence-force relation as well still contain uncertainties. Further studies on them are needed to gain the better knowledge to refine the existing problems from analytical computations to wind tunnel’s physical simulations in the wind engineering. The continuous and discrete wavelet transforms have been applied as powerful transformation tools to represent time series into the timefrequency localization. This paper will apply the orthogonal-based wavelet decomposition to investigate the intermittency of the turbulence and to detect the turbulence-force correlation in the both temporal-spectral information using proposed cross energy of wavelet decompositions. Analyzing data have been obtained by physical measurements on model from the wind tunnel tests.