Wind engineering and fluid mechanics

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14.10.2024

PARFORCE Master Course 2024

The Parforce course is taking place again this semester. Participants get to know the virtual laboratories of several institutes at various universities and work in small groups on a project to evaluate structures under wind, fire and earthquake impact. The course will take place as a presence event at one of the universities involved in the project from 24 to 28 March 2025.

03.10.2024

Open the door with the mouse - 3 October 2024 - Wind tunnel

On 3 October, we once again took part in Mouse Day, which had the motto ‘ZusammenTun’ (working together), this year. We welcomed many interested children and their parents to our wind tunnel.

15.05.2024

Moving research

Dr Cornelia Kalender is a researcher in the Wind Engineering and Fluid Mechanics working group at Ruhr University Bochum.

Course programme

The Wind Engineering and Fluid Mechanics (WiSt) group represents teaching and research at the faculty in structural aerodynamics, in the related fields of dynamics of structures - especially wind-excited random vibrations - and probabilistic safety theory, and in fluid mechanics in civil engineering. It evolved from the Aerodynamics in Civil Engineering Working Group, which was active in these research areas from 1974 to 2001. ASIB operates the boundary layer wind tunnel of the Institute of Structural Engineering of the Ruhr-University Bochum, which was built in 1977 under the leadership of the then owner of the working group, Prof. Dr.-Ing. H.-J. Niemann, and has been successfully maintained and expanded since then.

Virtual wind tunnel tour

Animation of the new Sava Bridge in the architectural competition

Further information can be found under Projects in the section "Practice - Applications and training - Wind tunnel projects".

"Today, you couldn't imagine not having aerodynamics!"

Jean-Marie Franco, Head of Laboratoire Eiffel S.A.R.L. in the 16th arrondissement, Paris, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Gustave Eiffel's death on 27.12.2023 Pioneering role in the field of aerodynamics in civil engineering.

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Contact

Head of the working group

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Höffer

Secretariat

Elke Köster

Address

Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Working Group:
Windingenieurwesen
und Strömungsmechanik
Gebäude IC Ebene 5
Sekretariat Raum 129
Universitätsstraße 150
44801 Bochum

Email:
wist@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Tel.: +49 (0)234 32 26141
Fax: +49 (0)234 32 14631