NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 風工程特論(6396)
(Eng.) Special Topics in Wind Engineering
Offering Dept Department of Soil and Water Conservation
Course Type Elective Credits 3 Teacher Kao-Hua Chang
Department Department of Soil and Water Conservation/Graduate Language English Semester 2026-SPRING
Course Description This course introduces fundamental meteorology and fluid mechanics for wind engineering applications, with particular emphasis on numerical simulation of wind flows.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to model and analyze wind engineering problems using numerical approaches.
1.Analyzing and designing practices of soil and water conservation.
2.Concepts and techniques of prevention-and-cure approaches for soil- and water-related disasters.
3.Enhanced academic research abilities and innovation of new techniques for soil and water conservation.
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Practicum
Lecturing
Attendance
Assignment
Oral Presentation
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Introduction
Week 2 Meteorological basics
Week 3 The wind profile
Week 4 Local flow
Week 5 Turbulence
Week 6 Wakes
Week 7 Modelling
Week 8 Mid-term oral presentation
Week 9 Wind flow numerical simulations
Week 10 Wind flow numerical simulations
Week 11 Wind flow numerical simulations
Week 12 Wind flow numerical simulations
Week 13 Wind flow numerical simulations
Week 14 Wind flow numerical simulations
Week 15 Final-term assignment
Week 16 Final-term assignment
self-directed
learning
   02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.

Evaluation
1.Attendance:20%
2.Mid-term oral presentation:40%
3.Final-term assignment:40%
Textbook & other References
1.Landberg, L. (2016). Meteorology for Wind Energy: An Introduction. Wiley.
2.Ferziger, J.H. (2020). Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics. Springer.
3.Maliska, C.R. (2023). Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method. Springer.
4.Sharma, A. (2022). Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: Development, Application and Analysis. Springer.
5.Ghaib, K. (2023). Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics. Springer.
6.Hufnagel, K. (2022). Wind Tunnel Balances. Spring
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
1.Textbooks: Meteorology for Wind Energy: An Introduction (2016); Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics (2020)
2.Simulation software: Ansys Fluent (https://www.ansys.com/academic/students)
Office Hours
During class or appointment by e-mail
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