Gang Hu

TL;DR: In this paper, two small diameter cylindrical rods were attached on two sides of the circular cylinder parallel to the cylinder axis and symmetrical to the stagnation line at a series of circumferential locations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the splitter plate was placed in the near wake of a circular cylinder to increase the performance of a piezoelectric wind energy harvester through wind tunnel experiments.

TL;DR: In this paper, a variable blade pitch automatic optimization platform (VBPAOP) composed of genetic algorithm and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation modules is built to search for optimal blade pitches that can maximize turbine power.

TL;DR: In this article, the flow field around a rigid finite square cylinder inclined away from the vertical direction was numerically investigated via large eddy simulations, and the forward inclination is found to enhance the downwash, which is initially observed behind the free end of the vertical cylinder, and amplify it to a downward axial flow.

TL;DR: In this article, a Double-Skin Facade (DSF) system with strategic openings was proposed to harvest wind energy in the built environment, and a series of wind tunnel tests and CFD simulations have been conducted to investigate the characteristics and related mechanisms of flow within the cavity of DSF integrated with a tall building model at different incident wind angles.