In recent years, global climate change has contributed to increasingly frequent extreme weather events, including typhoons. Located in the western Pacific region, China is one of the countries most severely affected by typhoons. Typhoons that affect Hainan Island and the islands in the South China Sea each year tend to be more intense, longer lasting, and more destructive. The two Level-17 super typhoons Rammasun (2014) and Yagi (2024), which occurred only ten years apart, caused direct economic losses of tens of billions of yuan on Hainan Island. Typhoons pose substantial disaster risks to civil engineering structures, offshore engineering and energy facilities, agricultural crops, trees, and related systems. Globally, research on typhoon disaster mitigation still faces many serious challenges, including key scientific issues such as wind-resistance safety assurance for infrastructure throughout its life cycle under typhoon conditions, site-specific wind-field modeling and prediction under typhoon conditions, and wind-resistance mechanisms and protection measures for agricultural and forestry crops. To address these bottlenecks, Natural Science of Hainan University is launching the special issue "Wind Engineering and Typhoon Disaster Mitigation" and cordially invites researchers in related fields to submit manuscripts. Through interdisciplinary integration across mechanics, mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, meteorology, artificial intelligence, new energy, and other fields, this special issue aims to promote academic exchange and cooperation and to advance both fundamental research and engineering applications in wind-resistant engineering, typhoon disaster mitigation, and emergency response.

This special issue aims to provide an academic exchange platform for researchers engaged in wind engineering and typhoon disaster mitigation. It will showcase the latest research findings, technological advances, and future development directions in the field. We welcome high-quality original research articles, reviews, and short communications covering frontier advances and diverse topics in wind engineering and typhoon disaster mitigation. The special issue accepts submissions in both Chinese and English.

1. Topics

Topics covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

· Wind resistance of engineering structures and infrastructure;

· Typhoon disaster risk assessment and urban resilience;

· Intelligent wind-field modeling and wind-speed prediction;

· Wind-resistance mechanisms and protection of agricultural and forestry crops;

· Bluff-body aerodynamics;

· Wind tunnel testing techniques;

· Computational wind engineering methods and applications.

2. Guest Editors

Dr. Dabo Xin, Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hainan University

Research interests: 1) Wind-resistant design and wind disaster prevention and mitigation for engineering structures; 2) Flow-control theory for structural wind resistance; 3) Integrated wind-effect suppression and wind-energy utilization. 

Dr. Zhitian Zhang, Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hainan University

Research interests: 1) Bridge and structural wind engineering; 2) Disaster prevention and mitigation; 3) CFD software development and applications. 

Dr. Hongfu Zhang, Research Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research interests: 1) Wind resistance of bridges and structures; 2) Flow-control theory and applications. 

Dr. Jiadong Zeng, Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hainan University

Research interests: 1) Wind resistance of bridges, buildings, and other structures; 2) Typhoon and near-surface wind characteristics. 

Dr. Bin Huang, Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hainan University

Research interests: 1) Wind and wind-blown sand resistance of building structures; 2) Wind and wind-blown sand resistance of new energy facilities; 3) Wind resistance of agricultural facilities and agricultural and forestry systems; 4) Applications of UAV technology in wind engineering. 

Dr. Tianlong Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hainan University

Research interests: 1) Full-life-cycle wind and seismic hazard effects on structures and safety assurance; 2) Digital construction and virtual simulation. 

Dr. Qi Wang, Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hainan University

Research interests: 1) Wind-induced vibration control of engineering structures; 2) Development of intelligent vibration mitigation and isolation systems.

Dr. Changting Zhong, Associate Research Fellow, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hainan University

Research interests: 1) Artificial intelligence in wind engineering; 2) Development of intelligent optimization algorithms and their applications in engineering disaster resilience.

 3. Submission Deadline

The submission deadline is July 30, 2026. Extensions may be granted depending on situations.

 4. Submission Instructions

All manuscripts will undergo single-blind peer review. Accepted papers will be formally published in the journal. Before submission, authors should consult the publication ethics and submission guidelines on the journal website. Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal online submission and review system. During submission, please select the special issue option "Wind Engineering and Typhoon Disaster Mitigation" and indicate the name of the special issue in the cover letter.

 5. Special Issue Details

Please visit the special issue website: https://hndk.hainanu.edu.cn/cn/special_issue/002