Conference

report

Second international colloquium on

bluff-body aerodynamics and
applications (BBAA2)
Melbourne,

Austruliu,

7- IO December

This colloquium was the second in a series

which aims to bring together researchers
and practitioners in the broad field of bluffbody aerodynamics. Of particular interest
to readers of Engineering Structures were
papers on bridge aerodynamics, building
wind-induced
vibration
aerodynamics,
(including vibration reduction techniques).
and the effect of upwind turbulence on
pressures on bluff structures.
About
90
papers
were
presented
including eight invited presentations of
longer duration. The growth of computational fluid dynamics has been a feature of
this and other conferences in the last five
years, with a strong contribution from
Japan. Although nobody has yet been able
to perform a realistic calculation of the
dynamic response of a bluff body such as
a tall building or bridge deck in threeturbulent
approach
flow
dimensional
representative of the natural wind. this
may not be too far off. At BBAA2.
D.Laurence (Electricite de France) gave a
review paper on The current state of bluffbody aerodynamics.

1992
Two sessions on wind-induced dynamic
response included several papers on the
torsional response of tall buildings, and
one on the measured response of a tower to
a typhoon in Japan. B. J. Vickery
(University of Western Ontario),
in an
invited presentation, described a study of
the aerodynamic
damping and vortex
excitation
of an oscillating
prism in
turbulent shear flow. which identified the
reduced velocity regime in which motioninduced
aerodynamic
forces
become
significant
Bridge aerodynamics was covered in
three sessions. and several papers from
Japan described studies of new cablestayed and suspension bridges in that
country. In a session on control of tlowinduced vibration.
several
interesting
methods
were
described,
including
variants of the cost-effective tuned liquid
damper.
The
sessions on
building
aerodynamics included several studies on
rhc statistical characteristics of fluctuating
wind pressures on low-rise buildings from
both wind-tunnel and full-scale.

Of particular interest in the sessions on

fundamental aspects of the subject. were
several papers concerned with the flow
around. and forces on. circular cylinders,
;I topic that has occupied researchers for
over a hundred years. This topic. and
several others were presented by A.
Roshko
(California
ot
Institute
Technology). who gave an invited paper
on
Perspectives
on
bluff-body
aerodynamics.
The BBAA2
Colloquium allowed for
interactions between practitioners in the
more basic aspects of bluff-body tluid
mechanics, and those more concerned with
the
practical
side
(such
as
wind
engineering), in a way that occurs less
often these days. as conferences become
more specialized. The Proceedings of
BBAAZ. including the discussions. will be
published in special editions of the Joun~rrl
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