Civil Engineering Departmental Seminar - Mechanism discovery, intelligent prediction, and flow control of structural wind effects assisted by flow field modes
Mechanism discovery, intelligent prediction, and flow control of structural wind effects assisted by flow field modes
Global climate change has led to frequent wind disasters, resulting in significant economic losses annually. The interaction between wind and structures exhibits complex unsteady and strongly nonlinear characteristics. Vortex dynamics is the key to understanding and controlling wind effects. However, traditional wind engineering research primarily focuses on the dynamic behavior of structures, with insufficient understanding of the vortex dynamics mechanisms in flow fields. Addressing the critical need for wind disaster prevention and mitigation in engineering structures, Professor Lei Zhou has long been dedicated to research on wind-induced disasters and their prevention and control in structures by employing a combined physical-data-driven approach, characterized by the quantification of multi-scale vortex dynamic behaviors. This research aims to resolve key scientific issues and challenges in wind resistance, such as insufficient understanding of structural wind effects, unclear mechanisms, and inefficient development of prediction and control methods in unconventional scenarios involving specific wind fields and aerodynamic interference.
Prof. Lei Zhou is currently a Professor at Central South University. She has obtained Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas), she is the Sheng Hua Scholar and Vice Dean of Shenzhen Research Institute of Central South University. She is internationally known as an active scholar in the field of Wind Engineering and Fluid Mechanics. She has published nearly 50 academic papers on the privileged journals and international conferences, in which 33 papers are SCI-indexed as the first/corresponding author, 5 highly cited paper/hot paper/editor picked, 28 papers are ranked within JCR-Q1 section, 25 papers are ranked within Q1 section of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has edited 2 English monographs and served as a young editorial board member of 2 JCR-Q1 journal and 2 EI journal. The applicant has also undertaken 6 scientific research projects, obtained 3 authorized invention patents as the first author, and participated in 6 international and domestic invited reports.