Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), NHERI 2023: Understanding and Mitigating Wind Effects on Low-Rise Building Roofs

Current research to reduce the harm created by hurricanes involves a mitigation plan in the formation of an Aerodynamics Mitigation and Power System (AMPS) (US Patent, Gan Chowdhury et al., Patent Number: US 9,951,752 B2, April 2018) designed to reduce wind damage and provide power to buildings simultaneously. The AMPS project will be reused in the future for electrical energy production, the configuration will be examined for power generation efficiency; ongoing research at FIU in the WoW EF lab. This project is unique it will have a tremendous impact as it has already been by disrupting the corner vortices generated on the roofs of low-rise buildings by high winds during hurricanes; moving on forward with the production of energy. The targeted audience is future wind engineers and coastal community residents/ mankind.

当前针对降低飓风灾害的研究中，包含一项名为空气动力学减灾与电力系统（Aerodynamics Mitigation and Power System，AMPS）的减灾方案（美国专利，Gan Chowdhury等，专利号US 9,951,752 B2，2018年4月），该系统可同时降低风灾破坏并为建筑供电。该AMPS项目未来将复用于电能生产，其系统构型将针对发电效率开展测试；相关研究目前正在FIU的WoW EF实验室推进。本项目独具特色，将产生深远影响：其可通过破坏飓风强风在低层建筑屋顶形成的角涡，同步推进电能生产相关工作。本项目的目标受众为未来的风力工程从业者、沿海社区居民及全人类。