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CFD simulations can be adequate for the evaluation of snow effects on structures

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This work was financially supported by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research in Japan (No. 16H04467).

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  2. Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Yoshihide Tominaga is a professor of Faculty of Engineering/Wind & Fluid Engineering Research Center, Niigata Institute of Technology. His area of expertise is numerical modelling of micro-scale wind flow and the related processes in the urban environment, including urban microclimate, air pollutant dispersion, pedestrian wind comfort, snowdrift etc. He has been studied CFD application to snowdrift around buildings for these few years, e.g. Tominaga (2018). He is a member of the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) snow load committee.

Ted Stathopoulos is a professor of Department of Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Concordia University. His research has focused on wind engineering and building aerodynamics, including wind loading, air pollutant dispersion, natural ventilation, wind comfort using experimental and numerical approaches with special interest to the development of wind load standards and codes of practice. He is a member of the American Standard (ASCE 7) and the Canadian (NBCC) code wind load committees.

The present authors have collaborated jointly for over 10 years and the outcomes of the collaboration have been published as 9 peer-reviewed journal papers, e.g. Tominaga and Stathopoulos (2016).

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Tominaga, Y., Stathopoulos, T. CFD simulations can be adequate for the evaluation of snow effects on structures. Build. Simul. 13, 729–737 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-020-0643-0

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