This partially explains the observed vigorous dynamic behaviour of roofs before failure in buildings with a windward opening during the passage of tropical cyclones.
Kīlauea's bulk affects local climate conditions through the influence of trade winds coming predominately from the northeast, which, when squeezed upwards by the volcano's height, results in a moister windward side and a comparatively arid leeward flank.
Hayward may have sailed on a windward tack that day in the Round the Island race, but it has been his company, and others involved in this disaster, who have used wayward tactics.
A further victim was wounded in a shooting on Windward Court, where protesters were moved after police ordered them to move from West Florissant Avenue.
Three ventilation cases, single-sided ventilation with an opening in windward wall, single-sided ventilation with an opening in leeward wall, and cross ventilation, are studied.
The results show that the aerodynamic moment tending to overturn a truck in the windward lane of the bridge rises from approximately 120 kN m at low speeds (0 40 km/h) to 217 kN m at a truck speed of 120 km/h.
Conditions of a moving truck travelling in both windward and leeward lanes were considered with a cross-wind speed of 120 km/h and truck speeds of 0 120 km/h.
The battlecruisers under my command found themselves, in view of the prevailing [East-North-East] wind, in the windward position and so in an unfavourable situation from the outset".
When a sound source is installed in the windward direction with respect to the radar, the antenna beam pointed in the windward direction is the optimal condition.
Unsteady vortices are generated in the wake region due to a combination of positive and negative pressure in the windward and leeward faces, respectively.
