January 2022 - BARC special issue of Wind & Structures, An international journal
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The BARC special issue of Wind & Structures, An international Journal is published and available online
Here the preface to the special issue.
The 13 papers collected therein offer a high quality, updated overview of the studies on the BARC flow.
The Special Issue enriches and disseminates as a whole the scientific knowledge on the BARC flow.
The kind availability of the Journal and of its Editors-in-Chiefs Ashraf El Damatty, Thomas Kang and Francesco Ricciardelli is gratefully acknowledged.
February 2021 - MYOC BARC webApp online
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12 years later BARC launching, a new web app is available to collect, postprocess and compare the large amount of scientific results obtained by the international community on the BARC flow. BARC-MYOC (Make Your Own Comparison) is available here.
Enjoy using it!
June 2020 - BARC new website online
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On the occasion of the new ANIV website, also BARC renews its one.
The new web site is full Open Access, with no longer a credential-based member area.
Docs and Data section are enriched, and a web-based BARC-MYOC App (Make Your Own Comparison) included to quickly postprocess results from previous contributes, and compare them with new results.
A special thanks to the Executive Board of the International Association for Wind Engineering, headed by Y. Tamura, that supported BARC dissemination activities in 2014.
May 2014 - BARC in ERCOFTAC Wiki
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BARC enters as Silver content among the Underlying Flow Regimes (UFR_2-15) in the ERCOFTAC Knowledge Base Wiki
A great recognition from the widest and most renewed European research community in turbulence and combustion.
A great contribution by ERCOFTAC to boost BARC dissemination.
A special thanks to Wolfgang Rodi, ETCOFTAC delegate in the BARC Scientific committee, who made this possible.
January 2014 - BARC overview published on JWEIA
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Bruno, L., Salvetti, M. V., & Ricciardelli, F. (2014). Benchmark on the aerodynamics of a rectangular 5:1 cylinder: An overview after the first four years of activity. JWEIA, 126, 87–106.
An outline of the state of the art on the aerodynamics of 5:1 rectangular cylinders prior to BARC, and a summary of the results obtained by the contributors during the first four years of activity. About 70 realizations of the BARC flow in both wind tunnel experiments and numerical simulations.
A special thanks to all BARC participants, and JWEIA editor and anonymous reviewers, who made this possible.
Updated statistics at:
You can download the pre-print version of the overview paper here 
July 2011 - BARC at ICWE13 – Amsterdam
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BARC Thematic Session at 13th International Conference on Wind Engineering, in the wake of the ones at EACWE5, and CWE2010. The session hosts 9 papers.
BARC Young Authors Award remitted to:
- André F. P. Ribeiro for his study “Unsteady RANS modelling of flow past a rectangular 5:1 cylinder: investigation of edge sharpness effects”;
- Okke Bronkhorst for his study “Unsteady pressure measurements on a 5:1 rectangular cylinder”.
March 2009 - BARC website online
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A special thanks to V. Gusella, at the time president of ANIV, and M. Gioffrè, designer and administrator of the site, who made this possible.
July 2008 - BARC kickoff at BBAA VI – Milan
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BARC is presented at 6th International Colloquium on
Bluff Body Aerodynamics & Applications
The BARC presentation is complemented by announcements on JWEIA, JFS, C&F, Wind&Structures, J. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
A special thanks to Alberto Zasso, BBAAVI Chairman, and to Guido Buresti, chairman of the Rectangular Cylinder session, who made this possible.
You can download here the documents presented at BBAAVI: