Wind Effects on Rectangular and Triaxial Symmetrical Tall Building Having Equal Area and Height

Table 1

Mesh independent test result for model-A.

Name	Type of meshing	No of elements	Mean external pressure				% error				Reynold No
			Face
			A	B	C	D	A (%)	B (%)	C (%)	D (%)
GS-1	Coarse	957324	0.59	−0.49	−0.24	−0.49	36	32	26	32	3.56 × 10^6 to 3.90 × 10^6
GS-2	Medium-1	1284687	0.73	−0.56	−0.27	−0.56	10	16	12	16
GS-3	Medium-2	1439589	0.78	−0.64	−0.30	−0.64	3	2	0	2
GS-4	Medium-3	1561140	0.81	−0.69	−0.32	−0.69	1	5	6	5
GS-5	Fine	2497236	1.02	−0.98	−0.43	−0.98	33	33	30	33

Bold values are indicating that if the GS-3 case is adopted for the numerical simulation, then the percentage error will be less in comparison to other meshing cases investigated in this study.