ABSTRACT
The subject of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is now a standard course in many higher education institutes. The branch of CFD applied to wind engineering has been named Computational Wind Engineering (CWE). In this chapter, some studies are presented to illustrate the capabilities of CWE techniques to be applied to the wind loading of structures, as well as the difficulties encountered. CWE is rapidly progressing and gaining more acceptance and application in wind engineering. However, the tool still has to expand to its full extent into all areas of wind engineering. With the current progress in hardware development and numerical methods, it is highly likely that a reliable CWE study of a structure in a transient fluid flow will be possible in a few years. The chapter discusses discretization of the domain and meshing. The computational domain must be filled with discrete points and divided into discrete control volumes to relate to the discrete, algebraic equations.
