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Current Issues in Wind Engineering: A Review

  • Yong Chul Kim (Department of Engineering, Tokyo Polytechnic University)
  • Published : 2023.12.29
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Abstract

This paper briefly discusses current issues in wind engineering, including the enhancement of aerodynamic database and AI-assisted design, aerodynamic characteristics of tall buildings with atypical building shapes, application of computation fluid dynamics to wind engineering, evaluation of aerodynamic force coefficients based on a probabilistic method, estimation of tornadic wind speed (JEF scale) and effect of the Ekman Spiral on tall buildings.

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This research was supported by the State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University (Project No. SLDRCE21-05). The authors gratefully acknowledge this support.

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