Australasian Wind Engineering Society 
Workshop Program

20th Australasian Wind Engineering Society Workshop
6-8 April, 2021

Proceedings

Title

Authors

Using the principles of wind engineering to estimate the resilience of existing strata buildings

Dr Geoff Boughton, Dr Saira Viqar, Debbie Falck,Dr Geeth Bodhinayake

Building porosity and its influence on internal pressure

M.T Humphreys, John Ginger, David Henderson

Benefit-Cost Analysis of Retrofitting a High-Set House for Wind Hazard

Korah Parackal, Martin Wehner, Hyeuk Ryu, David Henderson, Mark Edwards, John Ginger

Assessing the Vulnerability of Modern Homes to Tropical Cyclones and the Suitability of Current Building Codes in Australia

Daniel Smith, David Henderson

Net Pressures and Net Pressure Factors for Building Roof Cladding Elements

G.G. Bodhinayake, John Ginger, David Henderson

Tropical cyclone impacts on the Western Australian coast

John Holmes

Wind Hazard Modelling using Geoscience Australia’s Tropical Risk Cyclone Model (TCRM)

Lauren Boysen, Graeme Wood

Re-analysis of extreme wind gusts in Region D

John Holmes

Aotearoa New Zealand Design Wind Speeds: Updates to AS/NZS 1170.2 and High-Resolution Maps using Reanalyses

Amir A.S. Pirooz, Richard G.J. Flay, Richard Turner

Use of a penultimate method and OEN mixture model in the context of Wellington wind climate: some observations

Pierre Verhaeghe

Machine Learning-based Prediction of Crosswind Vibrations of Rectangular Cylinders

Gang Hu, Pengfei Lin, Chao Li, Yiqing Xiao, K.T. Tse, K.C.S. Kwok

Transient aerodynamic characteristics of a square prism during an accelerating wind starting from quiescence

Ting Yang, Matthew Mason

Aerodynamics of the Highway Sign Support Structure: Experimental Investigation of The Sign Geometry Effects

Omar Al-Kubaisi, Kapil Chauhan, Graeme Wood

Dynamic Response Mitigation for Sky Bridge Hong Kong International Airport

N.K.Truong, M.B.Vallis, A.W.Rofail

Wind Loads on Skillion and Lean-To Roof Buildings

Joshua Eaton, John Ginger

Assessment of Upwind Terrain Categories of YMML using Gustiness Technique

Matthew B. Vallis, Nicholas K. Truong, Antonios W. Rofail

A Roadmap for Studying Extreme Winds in Pacific Islands: Statistics, Design Wind Speed Estimates, Challenges

Amir A.S. Pirooz, Alan Porteous, Richard Turner, Richard G.J. Flay

Modelling Maximum Credible ex-Tropical Cyclone Events Over Auckland, New Zealand

Ian Boutle, Stuart Moore, Richard Turner

Prefeasibility Study of Offshore Wind Energy to Support the National Electricity Grid in Fiji

Kunal K. Dayal, Rajnish N. Sharma, Sasan Sarmast

Assessment of Empirical Downburst Models Against Field Measurements of Two Thunderstorm Outflow Events

Mosaruf Hussan, Matthew Mason

Coupling Numerical Weather Prediction Model and Computational Fluid Dynamics: Auckland Harbour Case Study

Amir A.S. Pirooz, Stuart Moore, Richard Turner, Richard G.J. Flay

Transmission Line Ice Accretion Modelling for New Zealand

Daniel D. J. Smith, Richard G. J. Flay, Richard W. Turner, Nick J. Locke

Wind tunnel experiments of air pollutant residual time around a generic building

Erfan Keshavarzian, Kenny Kwok, Kejun Dong, Kapil Chauhan, Yu Zhang

Single-Cell Buoyancy Vortex CFD Modelling

K.-W. Leong, M. MacDonald, J.E. Cater, R.G.J. Flay

Impact of wind turbulence on thermal perception in the urban microclimate

Yichen Yu, Kapil Chauhan, Richard de Dear, Jianlei Niu

Experimental and numerical simulation of wind characteristics behind square prism array windbreaks: Importance of replicating unintended longitudinal turbulence gradients

Junwei Lyu, Matthew S. Mason and Chien Ming Wang

Experimental study of the velocity and temperature profiles due to wind-blown flames

Robert H Ong, Gang Hu, Yaping He, Esmaeel Eftekharian, Kenny C S Kwok

Air Pollutant Dispersion around High-Rise Buildings due to Roof Emission

Yong Yu, Guang Ze Guo, Kenny Kwok, Yu Zhang