Wind Engineering and Hurricane Hazards

Subject associations
CEE 566
Term
Spring 2026
Instructors
Ning Lin
Registrar description

This course builds upon traditional Wind Engineering and address planning and design for hurricane hazards in a changing climate. Grounded in physical mechanisms, it introduces numerical modeling of hurricane climatology, hazards, and impacts to support coastal resilience. Students will apply synthetic storm datasets to analyze risk across climates; simulate extreme winds, storm surge, rainfall, and compound flooding; characterize hazard probabilities under nonstationary conditions; examine impacts on infrastructure and communities; and explore reinforcement learning approaches for flexible adaptation design and climate risk management.