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Publications

Journals:

1. Merrick, R., Bitsuamlak, G.T. Shape Effects on the Wind-Induced Response of High-Rise Buildings, (2008), under review by Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics.
2. Bitsuamlak, G.T., Stathopoulos, T., Bédard, C., Modeling the Effect of Topography on Wind Flow Using a Combined Numerical Neural Network Approach, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp 384-392 (2007).
3. Bitsuamlak, G.T., Stathopoulos, T., Bédard, C., Effect of upstream hills on design wind load: a computational approach, Wind and Structures. Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 37-58 (2005).
4. Bitsuamlak, G.T., Stathopoulos, T., Bédard, C., Numerical evaluation of turbulent flows over complex terrains: A review, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 17, No 4, pp. 135-145 (2004).

Conferences:

1. Bitsuamlak, G.T., Gan Chowduhury, A., Dagnew, A., Computational blockage assessment for a new full-scale testing facility, 4th International Conference, Advances on Wind and Structures (AWAS08), Jeju, Korea.
2. Ryan Merrick, Bitsuamlak, G.T., "Control of flow around a circular cylinder by the use of surface roughness", 4th International Conference, Advances on Wind and Structures (AWAS08), Jeju, Korea.
3. Huang, P., Liu, R., Gan Chowdhury, A., Bitsuamlak, G., Erwin, J., Ahmed, S.S., Turbulence Simulation of Small-Scale Wall of Wind Flows, 4th International Conference on Advances in Wind and Structures (AWAS08), Jeju, Korea.
4. Leatherman, S., Roberston, C., Simu, E., Choudhury, G., Bitsuamlak, G., Huang, P.(2008),“Full-Scale Destructive Testing of Houses to Hurricane-Force Wind and Rain,Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference, April 13-16, Oahu, Hawaii.
5. Azhar, M., Saleem, Bitsuamlak, G.T, “Comparison of wind induced response based on two major International building codes”, International Conference on Advances In Cement Based Materials and Applications in Civil Infrastructure- (ACBM-ACI), Lahore-Pakistan, December 12-14, 2007.
6. Browne, M., McKinnon, R., Bitsuamlak, G.T., Kumar, S.K. Geometric scale effects in wind tunnel testing of porous screens, 12th international Conference on Industrial Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering, 2007, Carins, Australia.
7. Bitsuamlak, G.T. Application of computational wind engineering: A practical perspective, Third National Conference in wind Engineering, January 5-7, 2006, Kolkata, India.
8. Bitsuamlak, G.T., Stathopoulos, T., Bédard, C., Numerical evaluation of wind flow over complex Terrain using an object-oriented approach, 33rd Annual General Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2005, Toronto, Canada.
9. Garabedian, A., Dagnew, M., Bitsuamlak, G.T., Bandari, N., Veillette, S., Fung, K.B., Fedosejevs, G., Latifovic, R., Park, W., Teillet, P.M. Artificial Intelligence Analysis and Comparison of Integrated Remote and In-Situ Sensing Measurements of Air Temperature, 25th Canadian Remote Sensing Symposium, October 14-17, 2003, Montreal, Canada.
10. Bitsuamlak, G.T., Stathopoulos, T., Bédard, C., Numerical evaluation of wind flow over different types of topography, ASCE Structures Congress 2004, Nashville
11. Bitsuamlak, G.T., Stathopoulos, T., Bédard, C., Numerical evaluation and neural net predictions of wind loads on buildings with upstream complex terrain, 11th international Conference on Industrial Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering, June 2003, Texas, USA.
12. Bitsuamlak, G.T., Stathopoulos, T., Bédard, C., Effects of topography on the design wind loads for buildings: a computational approach, XXXIth World Congress, International Association for Housing Science, June 2003, Montreal, Canada.
13. Bitsuamlak, G.T., Stathopoulos, T., Bédard, C., Neural network predictions of wind flow over complex terrain, 4th Structural Specialty Conference of the CSCE, Montréal, Québec, Canada (2002).
14. Bitsuamlak, G.T., Stathopoulos, T., Bédard, C., Numerical simulation of wind flow over mountain-valley system, ASCE conference at Washington DC (2001).
15. Bitsuamlak, G.T., Stathopoulos, T., Bédard, C.,Progress on numerical simulation of wind loads on buildings, 8th annual conference of the CFD society of Canada (CFD2K), Montreal (2000).
16. Bitsuamlak, G.T., Godbole, P.N., Application of cascade correlation neural network for determination of wind pressure distribution in buildings, 10th International Conference on Industrial Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering, 1491-1497, Denmark (1999).