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Uncovering MIT wind myths through micro-climatological CFD analysis

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 2013-10-15 v1 Computational Physics Fluid Dynamics Popular Physics
Authors: Alexander Kalmikov
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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.

Keywords

wind turbine

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@article{arxiv.1310.3538,
  title  = {Uncovering MIT wind myths through micro-climatological CFD analysis},
  author = {Alexander Kalmikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.3538},
  year   = {2013}
}

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36 pages, 27 figures

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