Building aerodynamics
Taipei 101 in Taiwan is currently the world's tallest building and it's in the path of frequent and severe typhoons.
Typhoon winds can top 240 kilometres per hour. With the wrong tower design, such high wind speeds would create excessive whirlpools and damaging sway. So a wind engineer's first step is to test the aerodynamics of the architect's original plans.
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| forward | Touch forward to see Taipei 101 and Typhoon Aere that hit the tower in 2004.
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