This symposium seeks to facilitate the exchange of the latest scientific and technical information in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics, particularly in its application to Wind Engineering.

The First International Symposium on CWE (CWE1992) was held in Tokyo and chaired by S. Murakami. It was initiated by the JAWE to activate and promote research on CFD technology and to develop various research fields using CFD in wind engineering. The CWE1992 was followed by the CWE1996 in Fort Collins chaired by R.N. Meroney and B. Bienkiewicz and the CWE2000 in Birmingham chaired by C. Baker. These symposia have become important events of the IAWE, and they needs to continue in order to provide a platform for discussing and exchanging the latest information associated with the application of CFD to wind engineering problems. There have been tremendous advances in CFD technology in the past several years since the last CWE was held in 2000.

There are many emerging issues to be solved, not only in wind hazard mitigation, but also in air-contamination problems near and in the far field of buildings, and in natural/cross ventilation or wind energy phenomena to preserve natural resources and to realize a sustainable society. CFD is one of the promising technologies for investigating these important issues, which will not necessarily be solved by traditional wind tunnel technology. CWE does not necessarily mean CFD, but can include various techniques using computers. The major topics for the next symposium are:

	Methodology of numerical simulation
	Turbulence model
	Simulation of atmospheric boundary layer wind
	Simulation of meteorological phenomena
	(typhoon, tornado, downburst, etc.)
	Monte Carlo simulation
	Meso-scale meteorological model
	Flow over complex terrains
	Wind environmental problems around buildings
	Flow around bluff bodies
	Building aerodynamics
	Bridge aerodynamics
	Fluid-structure interaction
	Flow-induced vibration
	Pedestrian wind environment
	Indoor/Outdoor air pollution
	Air-contamination problems
	Wind tunnel data for validation of CFD
	Other wind problems with computational aid