On the afternoon of 10 February 2026, the National Rail Transit Electrification and Automation Engineering Technology Research Centre (Hong Kong Branch) (CNERC-Rail) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University successfully hosted an academic seminar entitled “Physical Simulation and Turbulence Numerical Generation of Urban Typhoon Wind Fields.” The seminar featured Prof. Ming-Feng Huang from Guangxi University as the invited speaker.
During the seminar, Prof. Huang systematically introduced recent advances in the multiscale numerical simulation of urban typhoon wind fields, with a particular focus on the application of the WRF–LES coupled framework under real typhoon conditions and the analysis of wind pressure characteristics on tall buildings. Using Super Typhoon Mangkhut as a case study, he discussed the differences in wind fields between damaged and undamaged regions and examined the non-Gaussian characteristics of wind pressure. The reliability of the numerical framework was further validated through wind tunnel experiments. In addition, Prof. Huang presented a GPU-accelerated three-dimensional turbulent wind field generation method, which significantly improves the computational efficiency of turbulence generation in WRF–LES simulations.
The seminar stimulated active discussions among faculty members and students, providing a valuable platform for academic exchange in urban wind environment modelling and typhoon-resilient design, and was well received by the participants.
