Wind Tunnel Analysis of the Aerodynamic Loads on Rolling Stock over Railway Embankments: The Effect of Shelter Windbreaks

Table 2

Force coefficients, , , and , corresponding to the configurations tested without parapets (). The reference axes are shown in Figure 1.

Train at windward track				Train at leeward track
[°]				[°]
Embankment slope 1 : 2
−6	−0.27	1.26	0.47	−6	0.58	0.53	0.35
0	0.31	1.24	0.65	0	0.91	0.54	0.38
6	0.29	1.27	0.65	6	1.03	0.59	0.35
Train at windward track				Train at leeward track
[°]				[°]
Embankment slope 1 : 1
−6	−0.17	1.18	0.45	−6	0.57	0.56	0.38
0	0.29	1.21	0.63	0	0.82	0.48	0.35
6	0.24	1.25	0.63	6	0.99	0.57	0.35