Having been identified as the cause of design load winds in many parts of the world,
transient winds such as gust fronts and thunderstorm downbursts have been increasingly …

Downburst produces strong winds near the ground and causes severe damage to buildings
and people. The non-stationarity of downburst is characterized by moving downdraft and …

The transient lift and drag coefficients around a low rise cube of dimension 60 mm and a
portal building of dimensions 240× 130× 53 mm with eaves height of 42 mm, which arise …

Thunderstorm downburst winds are a major cause of severe damage to buildings and other
infrastructure. The initiative of the NSF-NHERI Wall of Wind (WOW) Experimental Facility to …

This article provides a time-resolved characterisation of the wind field in a recently-
commissioned, downdraft outflow simulator at The University of Western Ontario. A large slot …

Traditionally buildings are designed assuming they will be loaded by a statistically stationary
atmospheric boundary layer wind with a logarithmic mean vertical profile. However, there …

This paper describes work undertaken as a joint project between the University of
Strathclyde (UoS) and the University of Birmingham (UoB) in the UK, aimed at simulating …

The need to accurately model the wind loading due to non-synoptic, extreme wind events
(such as thunderstorm downbursts) has been recognised for a number of years (Chay and …

Thunderstorm downbursts are transient, small-scale events which are, however, the cause
of design wind speeds in many parts of the world. The difficulties in predicting when and …

Wind loading is extremely important in the context of structural safety and reliability. The
complex interaction of wind with that exists among topography structures makes it extremely …