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International Association for Wind Engineering
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The International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE) promotes international cooperation among scientists, engineers, and other professionals for advancement of knowledge in wind engineering. This includes the mitigation of damage caused by storms which are responsible for the substantial human casualties and economic losses that the world suffers every year from natural events, as well as wind modeling and wind climate, bluff-body aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics, wind tunnel and full-scale tests, the wind-excited and aeroelastic behavior of towers, skyscrapers, bridges and any structure whose safety and serviceability depends on wind, pollutant dispersion, fire spreading, sand erosion and snow drift, and land planning strategies related to wind.
The IAWE was founded, with the aim of organizing international meetings and of liaising with national and international organizations working in similar fields. The IAAWE includes three regional organizations: Europe-Africa, Americas, and Asia-Oceania. The IAWE has come to embrace a wide set of problems including but not limited to:
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Windborn debris
- Glass and cladding behavior
- Wind effects on transportation
- Wind energy production
- Forest fire propagation
- Wind erosion
- Sand and snow-drift
- Urban planning
- Bioclimatic engineering
- Natural ventilation
- Wind actions and effects on tall buildings
- Static and dynamic wind effects
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- Wind loads on buildings and structures
- Wind-driven rain and permeable facades
- Wind turbines
- Atmospheric dispersion of pollutants
- Windbreaks
- Architectural aerodynamics
- Pedestrian wind environment
- Wind actions and effects on long-span bridges
- Wind actions and effects on wind-sensitive structures
- Wind-structure Interaction
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American Association for Wind Engineering
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The American Association for Wind Engineering (AAWE) is a nonprofit, technical society of engineers, meteorologists, architects, planners, public officials, social scientists, manufacturers, and constructors. The AAWE is a professional organization dedicated to advancing the science and practice of wind engineering and solving national wind engineering problems.
The multi-disciplinary field of wind engineering considers problems related to wind and associated water loads and penetrations for buildings and structures, societal impact of winds, hurricane and tornado risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, codes and standards, dispersion of urban and industrial pollution, wind energy, and urban aerodynamics. Wind engineering is a multi-disciplinary matter concerning multifold topics.
As a professional organization for industry experts, AAWE:
- Promotes the exchange of information among researchers and practitioners
- Stimulates research efforts in wind engineering to build a knowledge base for wind hazard mitigation
- Assesses and prioritizes leading-edge research in wind engineering
- Provides advice to governmental agencies and other interested parties on wind research efforts and needs
- Maintains communication with similar organizations in other countries and international organizations
- Develops and executes plans for learning from future windstorms by gathering post-disaster information and analyzing and disseminating information
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Topics of interest - applications for homeland and societal security including natural and human-caused hazards and disasters,
integration of
multiscale
CWE
models
with endpoints for human health, fire damage, and property effects,
CFD model development and validation, disaster
preparedness
for
wind
damage, fire damage, and
environmental contamination and their
use in developing wind energy systems and their optimum siting.
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