Uncovering MIT wind myths through micro-climatological CFD analysis
Alexander Kalmikov
TL;DR
This study uses CFD simulations to investigate and confirm campus myths about unusually strong pedestrian winds at MIT, providing insights into their physical causes.
Contribution
It is the first to quantitatively analyze MIT wind myths using CFD, confirming their existence and explaining their physical mechanisms.
Findings
CFD simulations confirm the wind myths at MIT.
Physical mechanisms behind strong pedestrian winds are identified.
Provides a qualitative explanation of wind phenomena.
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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Taxonomy
TopicsWind and Air Flow Studies · Urban Heat Island Mitigation · Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research