I would like to express sincere gratitude to my advisor Dr. Bogusz Bienkiewicz, for his
supervision, advice and guidance from the very early stage of this research and for
introducing me to the unique field of Wind Engineering. I would also like to thank Dr.
Karan Venayagamoorthy and Dr. Hiroshi Sakurai for their support and valuable advice
provided as members of the graduate committee. I acknowledge the financial support
provided by Clean Energy Supercluster at Colorado State University.
I am thankful to the Wind Engineering and Fluids Laboratory (WEFL) whose resources
and facilities I used in my work and for the friendly atmosphere it provided. My sincere
appreciation goes to Munehito Endo and Sung Su Bae, of WEFL who helped me set up
the experimental configurations employed in the wind tunnel testing. I gratefully thank
Eric Richards and Aparna Arunachalam for their constructive comments on initial
versions of this thesis.
Lastly and most importantly, I wish to thank my family and friends for their support and
encouragement throughout the course of this work.