The Wind Loading Characteristics of MAN Type Dry Gas Storage Tank

Table 1

Aerodynamic regimes and flow characteristics around a circular cylinder. Data from Wieselsberger [2]; Schewe [3]; Williamson [4]; Roshko [5]; Norberg [6]; Demartino and Ricciardelli [7].

Regime	No separation	Pair of stationary vortex	Laminar vortex shedding	Turbulent vortex shedding
Re range	0 < Re < 5	0 < Re < 5	0 < Re < 5	0 < Re < 5
Cd	∞ > Cd > 4	4 > Cd > 2.1	2.1 > Cd > 1.5	1.5 > Cd > 1.3
Cl	0	0	0	0
St	—	—	0.1 < St < 0.2	0.2 ≌ St ≌ 0.2
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Regime	Subcritical	Critical	Supercritical	Transcritical
Re range	300 < Re < 3 × 10^5	3 × 10^5 < Re < 3.5 × 10^5	3.5 × 10^5 < Re < 4.5 × 10^6	4.5 × 10^6 < Re < ∞
Cd	1.3 > Cd > 1.2	1.2 > Cd > 0.3	0.3 < Cd < 0.5	Cd > 0.5
Cl	0	≌1.3	0	0
St	0.2 ≌ St ≌ 0.2	0.2 < St < 0.45	0.45 > St > 0.25	St < 0.25
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