Computational Wind Engineering 2010

Professor Robert Meroney of Colorado State University asked us if we would post the following information:

We are setting aside a special session during the Fifth International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering next spring in Raleigh, N.C., May 23-27, 2010 (Web site is http://www.cwe2010.org/index.html ). This symposium draws participants from architects, engineers, city planners, environmental responders, etc. Unfortunately, we have not had much response from the many fire modelers I know are active. Although the official deadline for abstract submission (1 page) is October 1, 2009, we intend to extend the deadline a couple weeks further into October. Below is a description of the special session:

Fire modeling

Although fire modeling in general can include conceptual, physical, or analytical models, the computational wind engineering focus is on how numerical methods (CFD) can be used to interpret how forest, brush, and/or building fires interact with local meteorology. Examples are the influence of local wind and atmospheric conditions on the spread and intensity in structure fires, wild land/urban interface fires, fires in urban street canyons, and forest/brush fires aggravated by local environments such as vegetation, canyons, or topographical channeling.

Robert N. Meroney, PhD, PE
Colorado Professor Emeritus
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Colorado State University
http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~meroney/index.html