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    Wind engineering is a subset of mechanical engineering, structural engineering, meteorology, and applied physics that analyzes the effects of wind in the...
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    A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. As of 2020[update], hundreds of thousands of large turbines...
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    RWDI (redirect from RWDI Wind Engineering)
    Irwin Inc. (RWDI) is a Canadian engineering consulting firm that specializes in wind engineering and environmental engineering. The RWDI group of companies...
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  • Computer-aided engineering Model-driven engineering Concurrent engineering Engineering analysis Engineering design process (engineering method) Engineering mathematics...
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    sub-disciplines within structural engineering have emerged, including wind engineering and earthquake engineering. Design considerations will include...
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    Airflow Climatology Wind advisory Wind engineering List of local winds North wind South wind West wind East wind "Anemology." Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary...
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  • Wind Engineering is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on wind power published by Sage Publishing. The editor-in-chief is Jon...
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    Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly...
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    Wind shear (/ʃɪər/; also written windshear), sometimes referred to as wind gradient, is a difference in wind speed and/or direction over a relatively short...
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  • force of the wind. In such cases, the Froude number should be respected. Similarly, when simulating hot smoke plumes combined with natural wind, Froude number...
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    A vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) is a type of wind turbine where the main rotor shaft is set transverse to the wind while the main components are located...
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    "Wind Effects on a Tall Building with Cross Section and Mid-size Base Columns: A Database-assisted Design Approach". Journal of Structural Engineering...
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    website "The Burj Dubai Tower Wind Engineering" (PDF). (597 KB) (Structure magazine, June 2006) "The Wind Engineering of the Burj Dubai Tower" (PDF)...
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    Windbreak (redirect from Wind break)
    (1985). "Numerical studies of flow through a windbreak". Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 21 (2): 119–154. doi:10.1016/0167-6105(85)90001-7...
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    Windmill (redirect from Wind mill)
    A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain (gristmills), pump water, generate electricity, or drive other...
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    Wind power has been used as long as humans have put sails into the wind. Wind-powered machines used to grind grain and pump water — the windmill and wind...
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    The term horseshoe vortex is also used in wind engineering to describe the flow pattern created by strong winds around the base of a tall building. This...
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    Urban canyon (section Wind)
    Rotach (2001). "A wind-tunnel study of organized and turbulent air motions in urban street canyons". Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics...
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  • Enhanced Fujita scale (category Wind)
    wind speeds on the original scale were deemed by meteorologists and engineers as being too high, and engineering studies indicated that slower winds than...
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  • in a merger of Siemens' Wind Power division with Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, S.A.; it is a Spanish-German wind engineering company based in Zamudio...
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    common to help buildings meet the requirements of earthquake engineering and wind engineering. Historically, people fitted naturally shaped wooden poles...
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    Structural engineering specialties for buildings include: Earthquake engineering Façade engineering Fire engineering Roof engineering Tower engineering Wind engineering...
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  • This is an alphabetical list of wind tunnels. "A2 wind tunnel". Retrieved 26 January 2024. "ACE Climatic Wind Tunnel". Retrieved 26 January 2024. "Fly...
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    cycling pelotons: New insights by CFD simulation and wind tunnel testing". Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 179: 1. doi:10.1016/j...
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    aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is similar, but deals with the electronics side of aerospace engineering. "Aeronautical...
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  • Fujita scale (category Wind)
    building to building. Without a thorough engineering analysis of tornado damage in any event, the actual wind speeds needed to cause that damage are unknown...
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    Ahsan Kareem (category Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering)
    Wind Engineering. He was also the former President of the American Association for Wind Engineering. 2009, Member, US National Academy of Engineering...
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  • engineering. It is an integration of many recognized branches of engineering, such as structural engineering, wind engineering, coastal engineering,...
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    Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to solve problems within technology, increase efficiency...
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    College of Engineering is the first and, presently, only school in the world to offer a doctor of philosophy degree in wind science and engineering. In August...
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