Study on aerodynamic characteristics and parameters of high-speed elevator car-counterweight intersection

Abstract

When the high-speed elevator is running, the air in the hoistway is rapidly compressed and released to form the piston effect. Especially when the car and counterweight intersect, the piston effect makes the aerodynamic force of the car and counterweight change sharply, affecting the stability of elevator operation. In this study, a three-dimensional car counterweight intersection model is constructed, and a multi-region dynamic layered method is proposed to calculate the aerodynamic flow field in the whole moving process, the changes of aerodynamic drag force and aerodynamic lateral force of the car and the counterweight under different length ratio, blockage ratio and spacing are analyzed and simulated, and the influence of structural changes in the hoistway on the aerodynamic flow field is studied. Furthermore, the accuracy of the numerical results is verified by the real elevator test. Finally, the results show that when the car intersects the counterweight in the hoistway, the interaction between the car and the counterweight is enhanced, and the drag force coefficient and lateral force coefficient of the car suddenly change, and return to the normal state after the intersection, with the decrease of length ratio and spacing and the increase of blockage ratio, the sudden change degree of drag force also increases, and the sudden change of lateral force of the car is mainly affected by the car counterweight spacing, and increases with the decrease of spacing.

Keywords:

• High-speed elevator
• car-counterweight intersection
• multi-region dynamic layering method
• aerodynamic flow field
• structural changes

Acknowledgments

The authors sincerely thank the editors and reviewers for their insight and comments to further improve the quality of this manuscript.

Disclosure statement

Authors declare no competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the study presented in this paper.

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Funding

This study was funded by the Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation, China (grant number ZR2021ME245), and the Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation, China (grant number ZR2021ME210).