
Yang Yi
Contact
Address: School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510640, P.R.China
Tel. +86 20- 87113690
E-mail: ctyangyi@scut.edu.cn
Fields of Postgraduate Admissions
Structural Engineering
Research Fields
Wind Engineering: wind load / wind environment simulation, stack effect of high-rise buildings, snowdrifting simulation and roof snow loading evaluation
Teaching Courses
Postgraduate: Wind Engineering (with Prof. Zhuangning Xie)
Education Background
Tongji University, Ph.D. (2001-2004)
Wuhan University of Technology, M.S. (1998-2001)
Wuhan University of Technology, B.S. (1994-1998)
Work Experience
Professor, South China University of Technology (12/2012-Current)
Professor & Associate Director, China Academy of Building Research (CABR), Beijing (2011- 2012)
Associate Professor, CABR, Beijing (2006 - 2011)
Engineer, CABR, Beijing (2004-2006)
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (05/2011- 05/2012)
Concurrent Academic Posts
Member of editorial committee:
1.Standard of Wind Tunnel Test Method for Buildings. The Industry Standard of China
2.Standard of wind environment measurement and evaluation for Buildings. The Industry Standard of Guangdong Province, China
Member of academic society:
1. Senior Member of China Graphics Society
2. Committee Member of China Green Building Council
Honors and Awards
1.Huaxia Construction Science & Technology Award (First Class, 5/12), Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD), China, 2012.
2.Huaxia Construction Science & Technology Award (Second Class, 3/10), MOHURD, China, 2008.
Research Activities and Projects
1.Mechanism and evaluation of combined stack and wind effects of super high-rise buildings (2015-2018, PI, supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 51478194,¥800,000)
2.Research on the simulation of wind-driven snowdrift of large-span roof structures (2012-2015, PI, supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 51178441,¥600,000)
3.Research on the Theory and Mathematical Model of the Equilibrium Atmospheric Boundary Layer in Computational Wind Engineering (2008-2010, PI, supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 50708014,¥200,000)
4.Research on the Simulation of Equilibrium Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind Environment and Parameterization (2013-2014, PI, supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,¥200,000)
5.A New Inflow Turbulence Generator for Large Eddy Simulation and Aerodynamic Optimization of High-rise Buildings (2017-2019, PI, supported by State Key Laboratory for Subtropical Building Science,¥150,000)
Research Achievements/Selected Publications
More than 40 journal papers (15 indexed by SCI/EI).
Selected publications:
Yi Yang, Ming Gu, Suqin Chenand Xinyang Jin, New inflow boundary conditions for modeling the neutral equilibrium atmospheric boundary layers in Computational Wind Engineering,Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 97(2), 88-95, 2009. (Ranked No.1 of the most cited articles of JWEIA during the years 2009-2014, cited about 180 times according to Google Scholar)
Wei Yang (Yi Yang), Yong Quan, Xinyang Jin, Yukio Tamura and Ming Gu, Influences of equilibrium atmosphere boundary layer and turbulence parameter on wind loads of low-rise building,Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 96, 2080-2092, 2008. (Ranked No.17 of the most cited articles of JWEIA during the years 2008-2013,cited about 67 times according to Google Scholar)
Yi Yang*, Zhuangning Xie, Tim K.T. Tse, Xinyang Jin and Ming Gu, Verification of a tree canopy model and an example of its application in wind environment optimization, Wind and Structures, 15(5), 409-421, 2012.
K.T. Tse, Yi Yang*, K.M. Shum and Zhuangning Xie, Numerical Simulation of wind loadings on roadside noise mitigation structures, Wind and Structures, 17(3), 299-315, 2013.
Yi Yang*, Zhuangning Xie and Ming Gu, Consistent inflow boundary conditions for modelling the neutral equilibrium atmospheric boundary layer for the SST k-ω model, Wind and Structures , 24(5), 2017.