Proceedings of the Third National Conference on Wind Engineering

Ileana Calotescu is an associate professor at the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest (UTCB), Bucharest, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in wind engineering and is currently a member of the Department of Steel Structures, Management and Engineering Graphics. Her expertise involves both wind and earthquake engineering, having co-authored several scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals in both areas. Dr. Calotescu has coordinated several research projects focusing mainly on thunderstorm winds and their effects on structures. Dr. Calotescu is a founding member of the Romanian Association for Wind Engineering and currently holds the position of president of the association. She is also the current adjoint secretary general of the International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE). Costin Ioan Cöoiu is an associate professor at the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest (UTCB), Bucharest, Romania. He holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and is currently a member of the Department of Hydraulics, Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Protection. He is also the director of the Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering Laboratory “Constantin Iamandi” (LAIV), the main experimental infrastructure for wind engineering in Romania. His expertise covers wind engineering, turbulence, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and hydraulic machinery, with applications in energy conversion from clean sources. Dr. Cöoiu has coordinated four competitively funded research projects and co-authored more than 30 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is a founding member of the Romanian Association for Wind Engineering (ARIV) and currently serves as its vice president.