Buffeting Wind Load on Antennas with Rooftop Site

Mathias Clobes

Abstract

Most of the mobile phone antennas are located in urban areas. An economical solution is to place the antennas on top of existing buildings. In practice, any effect that the building has on the antenna wind load is neglected. Wind tunnel investigations and numerical simulations show that the wind loading might increase in some cases by up to 30% compared with the free flow.

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