Bibcode
Quattri, M.; Haase, R.; Barreto Cabrera, M.; Friend Monasterio, E.; Codina, R.; Gonzalez Hernandez, M.; Reyes, M.
Bibliographical reference
Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy III. Edited by Angeli, George Z.; Cullum, Martin J. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7017, pp. 70170O-70170O-12 (2008).
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Description
Telescope enclosures are used to limit the disturbance caused by the
wind on the pointing and tracking performances of telescopes and to
preserve primary mirror optical shape. Within the framework of the EC
program "ELT Design Study - Contract No. 011863", extended wind tunnel
test have been performed to characterize wind turbulent structure inside
two different types of enclosures and with different wind screen
positions. Also Power Spectral Densities of the turbulent flow have been
directly measured. In this paper the results are summarized, together
with the limitations associated to the use of scaled models. Mean speed
distributions and turbulent energy distributions have been measured. The
results are compared with the fields determined with quasisteady
approach based on existing turbulence models (namely von Karman).
Measurements obtained on the field in the VST enclosure at Paranal are
crossed checked with the results obtained in the Boundary Layer wind
tunnel.