Wind engineering and fluid mechanics

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10.12.2024

VDI Guideline 3783 Sheet 12

After more than six years of work, the revision of VDI Guideline 3783 Sheet 12 was officially published in November. The WIST group, with Dr Cornelia Kalender and Prof. Rüdiger Höffer, worked intensively on this with colleagues Bernd Leitl, Frank Harms, Rolf-Dieter Lieb, Wolfgang Theurer, Veith Hildebrand, Wolfgang Bächlin and Bernhard Bauhofer in the VDI/DIN Commission on Air Quality Control (KRdL) standards committee.

08.11.2024

General Assembly of the International Association for Wind Engineering

On 8 November, an extraordinary General Assembly of the International Association for Wind Engineering - IAWE took place in Bochum and online. We are very pleased that Dr Cornelia Kalender was officially elected Secretary General at this meeting and that Prof. Rüdiger Höffer took over the office of Treasurer.

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