Microscale obstacle resolving air quality model evaluation with the Michelstadt case.

Modelling pollutant dispersion in cities is challenging for air quality models as the urban obstacles have an important effect on the flow field and thus the dispersion. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models with an additional scalar dispersion transport equation are a possible way to resolve th...

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Publicado en:Scientific World Journal pp. 781748 - 781749
Autores principales: Rakai, Anikó, Kristóf, Gergely
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2013
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          Rakai, Anikó
          Kristóf, Gergely
        affil: Department of Fluid Mechanics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest 1111, Hungary.
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          Air Pollution Analysis
          Environmental Monitoring Methods
          Models, Theoretical
          Air
      ab: Modelling pollutant dispersion in cities is challenging for air quality models as the urban obstacles have an important effect on the flow field and thus the dispersion. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models with an additional scalar dispersion transport equation are a possible way to resolve the flowfield in the urban canopy and model dispersion taking into consideration the effect of the buildings explicitly. These models need detailed evaluation with the method of verification and validation to gain confidence in their reliability and use them as a regulatory purpose tool in complex urban geometries. This paper shows the performance of an open source general purpose CFD code, OpenFOAM for a complex urban geometry, Michelstadt, which has both flow field and dispersion measurement data. Continuous release dispersion results are discussed to show the strengths and weaknesses of the modelling approach, focusing on the value of the turbulent Schmidt number, which was found to give best statistical metric results with a value of 0.7.
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