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2011

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A fast model for pollutant dispersion at the neighbourhood scale

Di Sabatino S, Buccolieri R, Paradisi P, Palatella L, Corrado R

Waste Management and Disposal Pollution morphological parameter Morphological parameters Urban canopy Pollutant dispersion Spatially averaged profiles spatially averaged profile Neighbourhood scale Management Monitoring Policy and Law

This paper is devoted to the development and evaluation of a fast three-dimensional Eulerian model for dispersion inside and above the urban canopy layer. Spatially averaged wind and diffusivity coefficient profiles obtained from the commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code FLUENT are used as input in the developed model. This model is numerically solved by means of a finite volume method and mean concentration outputs are compared with the corresponding results from FLUENT. We considered several canopies made of arrays of cubes laid in staggered position. Results from the comparison suggest the potential of this type of simple modelling approach. As the spatially averaged wind and diffusivity profiles are strongly dependent from the mean morphometry properties of the urban canopy, these results, though preliminary, highlight the necessity of using specific turbulence closure models where building effects at the neighbourhood scale arc taken into account.

Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENT AND POLLUTION, vol. 47 (issue 1-4), pp. 207-215

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@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:302054,
	title = {A fast model for pollutant dispersion at the neighbourhood scale},
	author = {Di Sabatino S and Buccolieri R and Paradisi P and Palatella L and Corrado R},
	doi = {10.1504/ijep.2011.047335},
	year = {2011}
}