Uncovering MIT wind myths through micro-climatological CFD analysis

2013/10/14 by Alexander G. Kalmikov, Alexander Kalmikov, Kalmikov, Alexander
Engineering · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research #Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph) #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph) #Urban Heat Island Mitigation #Wind and Air Flow Studies #physics.ao-ph #physics.comp-ph #physics.flu-dyn #physics.pop-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1310.3538

36 pages, 27 figures

arxiv created 2013/10/14 · openalex publication_date 2013/10/14 · arxiv updated 2013/10/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Popular campus myths of unusually strong pedestrian level winds are investigated with a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach. The numerical simulations confirm the existence of the reported phenomena and provide a qualitative explanation of their physical mechanisms.

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