Giovanni Solari

At the end of 2020 the Italian Association for Wind Engineering lost one of its founding fathers and past Presidents. The whole international community of Wind Engineering lost one of its most distinguished members, and past president of the International Association for Wind Engineering. His scientific and institutional contribution has deeply marked the evolution of Wind Science and Engineering worldwide.

In the following you can find some selected writings that celebrate his life.

SOLARI LECTURES:

excellence and innovation in Wind Science and Engineering

The Italian Association for Wind Engineering aims at celebrating and renewing his longest lasting legacy in innovating Wind Science and Engineering by excellent studies. The Solari Lectures are dedicated to emerging, innovative topics in and around the broad field of Wind Engineering, reviewed by excellent scholars.

The Solari Lectures are hosted during the ANIV biannual International Conference on Wind Engineering IN-VENTO, under the umbrella of the International Association for Wind Engineering.

You can visit the dedicated page of the IN-VENTO web site to find out about the forthcoming Solari Lecture.

 

In the following you can know more about the past editions of the Solari Lectures.

⥤ Solari Lecture 2022

Gianluigi Rozza

Full professor in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, SISSA MathLab

Reduced-Order Models in Wind Engineering: fundamentals and applications

ABSTRACT. Engineers are continuously called to build simplified models of intricate problems and phenomena. They traditionally apply the so-called Simplified Physics Approach to build models and codify them. Wind Engineers often employ Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), also in the wake of the referential works of Giovanni Solari. The so-called Reduced Order Models (ROMs) include the above and many other approaches. ROMs are useful to provide a deep insight into huge amount of experimental data harvested from wind tunnel tests or computational simulations, and/or surrogate expensive high-fidelity models in uncertainty quantification, optimization or design-oriented applications. The lecture provides a wide rigorous general modelling framework, and discuss the past, present and future applications in bluff body aerodynamics and wind engineering.

⥤ Solari Lecture 2024

Partha Sarkar

Full professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, USA

Advances in Simulations to assess Non-Synoptic Wind Effects on Structures

ABSTRACT. Non-Synoptic windstorm (NSW) events (tornado/downburst/gust-front) cause severe structural damage and numerous fatalities every year in many countries including the United States, where this type of hazard is particularly severe. These events of moderate intensity can produce wind gusts exceeding 50 m/s, whereas tornadoes of highest intensity can produce wind gusts of 90 m/s or more. Damage to infrastructure is expected to increase with growing urbanization and increased intensification/frequency of such windstorms because of climate change. At present, civil structures are designed to resist only straight-line winds associated with a neutrally stable Atmospheric Boundary layer (ABL). The velocity fields in the NSW phenomena are three dimensional and the structural loading they produce is transient in nature and larger in magnitude because of atmospheric pressure change. This lecture reviews the advances in laboratory simulation, numerical modeling and data analysis techniques and tools used for assessing wind hazards to structures in NSW events. Tools such as system identification, time-domain aerodynamic/aeroelastic models, CFD and interactive FEM are used in combination with physical simulations in NSW laboratory simulators to assess structural loads, response, and damage. Advances in these simulations over these past two decades have increased our understanding of near-ground wind in NSW events and their wind loading effects on structures. Effects of parameters influencing wind loads are presented along with examples of mitigation measures that can be taken to reduce the risk to structural damage from NSW windstorms.