| Vol. - No. | Vol.11 - No.4 |
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| Date | Dec., 2022 |
| Title | Editor's Note |
| Contents |
This issue of IJHRB is a Special Issue on Wind Engineering. 10 papers have been selected for this Issue, which covers a range of subjects related to advances in wind engineering. Four papers present the results of studies on tall buildings and structures, and a long span roof structure. Lei Zhou and Professor Kam Tim Tse of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and Professor Gang Hu of Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen (HITsz) studied the aerodynamic characteristics of neighboring building exposed to twisted wind found in flow over complex terrain. HITsz's Shengyu Tian and Professor Gang Hu, and the University of Sydney's Cassandra Brigden, Caroline Kingsford, Dr Robert Ong and Professor Kenny Kwok presented the results of their study on the wind effects on tall buildings fitted with a porous double-skin façade. The fluctuating wind pressures acting on high aspect ratio circular cylinder are presented in a paper by Tokyo Electric Power and Services Co. Ltd's Keisuke Miura and Professor Masahiro Matsui of Tokyo Polytechnic University. The wind flow field on a long span roof structure, investigated by using both experimental and computational methods, is presented in a paper by HITsz's Dr Rajasekarababu and VIT Chennai's G Vinayagamurthy and Ajay Kumar. Environmental wind effects around tall buildings are presented in three papers. Takenaka Research and Development Institute's Hideyuki Tanaka and Yasuhiko Azegami and Qiang Lin and Professor Yukio Tamura of Chongqing University reported the speed-up mechanism of pedestrian-level winds around square buildings based on CFD. HITsz's H.Y. Peng, S.F. Dai, D. Hu and H.J. Liu presented a paper on the multi-objective optimization of pedestrian wind comfort and natural ventilation in a residential area. Jeonbuk National University's Min-Woo Park, Byung-Hee Nam and Ki-Pyo You, and Song Won University's Jang-Youl You presented wind environment assessment around high-rise buildings through wind tunnel test and CFD. The last three papers in this Issue deals with three different topics in wind engineering. HITsz's Jinghan Wang, Chao Li, Yiqing Xiao and Professor Jinping Ou presented a paper on the inflow conditions for modelling the neutral equilibrium ABL based on standard k-? model. A paper by University of Bath's Dr Antony Darby, Dr Erfan Shahabpoor and Kaveh Heshmati, and University of Exeter's Professor James Brownjohn describes VSimulators installed in a new UK-based immersive experimental facility for studying occupant response to wind-induced motion of tall buildings. The final paper by Arup's Dr Melissa Burton, Marc Tatarsky and Ian Ashcroft presented a new paradigm for wind design. The Co-Guest Editors thank all authors for their valuable contribution to this Special Issue. The support provided by Professor Sang Dae Kim, Editor-in-Chief, and the staff of IJHRB journal office are greatly appreciated. |