Wind engineering is a subset of mechanical engineering, structural engineering, meteorology, and applied physics that analyzes the effects of wind in the...

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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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...

sub-disciplines within structural engineering have emerged, including wind engineering and earthquake engineering. Design considerations will include...

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...

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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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...

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...

website "The Burj Dubai Tower Wind Engineering" (PDF). (597 KB) (Structure magazine, June 2006) "The Wind Engineering of the Burj Dubai Tower" (PDF)...

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...

(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...

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...

Rotach (2001). "A wind-tunnel study of organized and turbulent air motions in urban street canyons". Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics...

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...

Structural engineering specialties for buildings include: Earthquake engineering Façade engineering Fire engineering Roof engineering Tower engineering Wind engineering...

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...

professor in 1991 of Structural Mechanics with the Chair of Wind Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence. In 1999 Borri founded the Inter-university...

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...

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...

This glossary of engineering terms is a list of definitions about the major concepts of engineering. Please see the bottom of the page for glossaries of...

wind speeds on the original scale were deemed by meteorologists and engineers as being too high, and engineering studies indicated that slower winds than...

common to help buildings meet the requirements of earthquake engineering and wind engineering. Historically, people fitted naturally shaped wooden poles...

The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) is a tropical cyclone intensity scale that classifies hurricanes—which in the Western Hemisphere are tropical...

Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to solve problems within technology, increase efficiency...

Strakes began to be widely adopted in the 1960s as an element of wind engineering; ocean-borne versions were introduced in the 1970s. Ultimately, strakes...

Wind Engineering. He was also the former President of the American Association for Wind Engineering. 2009, Member, US National Academy of Engineering...

"Wind Effects on a Tall Building with Cross Section and Mid-size Base Columns: A Database-assisted Design Approach". Journal of Structural Engineering...

Wind direction is generally reported by the direction from which the wind originates. For example, a north or northerly wind blows from the north to the...