Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an essential predictive and design tool for the wind engineering community. This short course is tailored for engineers and meteorologists who are interested in the numerical prediction of how atmospheric flows affect the design of wind loading on building structures, atmospheric transport of pollutants, pedestrian comfort, building ventilation, wind energy, and urban hazards such as fire, smoke and biological agents.
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Introduction to Advanced CFD Post-processing, Data Visualization, and Communication
May 22-23, 2010
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an essential predictive and design tool for the wind engineering community. This short course is tailored for CFD practitioners who are already engaged in the numerical prediction of how atmospheric flows affect the design of building structures, pollution, pedestrian comfort, building ventilation, wind energy, and urban hazards such as fire, smoke and biological agents. The course focus is on gaining additional insight into the results of CFD simulations through advanced data exploration, visualization, animation, and communication.
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Design Improvements of Wind Farms
May 23, 2010
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Learning Objectives: The workshop attendees will be able to get a clear understanding of the following topics:
- influence of near-wake and far-wake regions on power generation
- statistical characteristics of the wind at the inlet to the wind farm
- measurement of wind
- atmospheric boundary layer and micrometeorology
- turbulence models for modeling wakes behind wind turbines
- wind energy’s place in national energy policy
- career opportunities in wind energy industry
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International Workshop on Wind Engineering Research and Practice
Current State-of-the-Art and Future Needs/Plans/Policies
May 28- 29, 2010
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Venue: Sunflower Room
This workshop aims to bring together prominent structural/wind engineers and meteorologists from academia, industry, and government, along with research program managers and policy makers for (a) reviewing the current state-of-the-art of wind engineering research and practice, (b) preparing short-term and long-term research needs and plans, and (c) formulating recommendations that will help in facilitating technology/knowledge transfer. The workshop includes twelve presentations by distinguished speakers who will deliver 30-minute lectures on various fields to cover broad topics such as wind characteristics and wind hazards, full-scale/field measurements, wind tunnel measurements, computational wind engineering, building codes, tornado-related design needs, etc., one group discussion session and one panel discussion session. Several participants from universities, industries and government organizations will participate in this workshop. The speakers and participants are from four countries including USA, Canada, Germany and Japan which adds the international flavor to this workshop. The two-day workshop is scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Day 1 (May 28, 2010) and 8:00 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. on Day 2 (May 29, 2010). It is being held in conjunction with The Fifth International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering, May 23-27, 2010, at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
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Where Theory Meets Practical Use:
Hands-On Introduction to Using CFD for Wind Engineering
Friday, May 28, 2010
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Attendance is limited to 30 participants.
You may register by selecting the appropriate box on the Symposium Registration form.
Abstract: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an essential predictive and design tool for the wind engineering community. This short course is tailored for engineers and researchers who are interested in getting an initial hands-on exposure to the CFD-based numerical prediction of how atmospheric flows affect wind resource assessment (WRA), the design of wind farms, wind energy turbines and blades. It is an excellent hands-on complement to the Pre-Symposium Workshops being offered at CWE2010, or can be taken on its own (assuming some prior familiarity with CFD at least equivalent to the 3-day Workshop being offered by Prof. Meroney on May 21-23)
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