Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics/Computational Wind Engineering for the 21st Century
May 21 - 23, 2010
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Attendance is limited to 60 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 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. The course is divided into three segments:

• Friday, May 21 – Day 1: An introduction and review of CFD numerical techniques, grid generation, discretization, Navier-Stokes equations idiosyncrasies, turbulence modeling and solver methods
• Saturday, May 22 – Day 2: The special requirements of Computational Wind Engineering (CWE) including appropriate simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer, criteria for realistic simulation and validation, building loads, transport and diffusion, pedestrian winds, and fires. This second section emphasizes the use of case studies in each application area
• Sunday, May 23 –Day 3: Additional CWE case studies, concluding with special presentations by expert CFD modelers on special modeling techniques used to assure accurate inlet conditions, surface roughness specification, interactions of flow and building response, wind generated noise, rain and snow, etc.
  The course is designed such that both the novice and experienced CFD modeler can benefit by attending all or portions of the course. It will also provide a foundation of CFD and CWE information such that attendance at the CWE2010 conference will be enhanced.

About the Presenter.  Robert N. Meroney, PhD, course director, is an emeritus professor of civil and environmental engineering, at Colorado State University (CSU). Formerly he was director of the CSU Wind Engineering Laboratory, group leader of the CSU Wind Engineering Program, and director of the NSF CSU/TTU Cooperative Program in Wind Engineering. He has more than forty years of experience in teaching and research on basic and applied problems of fluid mechanics. He published more than 340 papers and reports including some 75 specifically related to CFD and CWE topics. He has previously taught CFD short courses in the United States, Brazil, Taiwan, and Japan.  In 1996 Dr. Meroney organized the 2nd International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE1996) at Fort Collins, CO, USA. In 2006 he co-taught a CFD/CWE short course preceding CWE2006.

Additional lecturers will be invited to address specialty topics on Day 3 of the course.

Handouts consisting of complete copies of all lecture slides, notes, and lists of references will be provided to each student. The references include hyperlinks to valuable web sites, publications and other resources. Questions concerning the Short Course may be directed to Dr. Robert N. Meroney at robert.meroney@colostate.edu.

Cost:
US  $285  (Day 1, 2 and 3)
US  $195  (Day 2 and 3)

The workshop registration fee includes morning light breakfast /refreshment break, buffet lunch, and afternoon refreshment break during each day.