Comparison of closure schemes used to specify the velocity PDF in Lagrangian stochastic dispersion models for convective conditions

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1407-1418

  Luhar, Ashok K ^a   Hibberd, Mark F ^a   Hurley, Peter J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air quality modelling; Atmospheric dispersion; Convective boundary layer; Particle models; Skewed distribution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DISPERSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC DISPERSION MODELS;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

AIR QUALITY MODELLING; CLOSURE SCHEME; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC DISPERSION MODEL; PARTICLE RELEASE SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TURBULENT VELOCITY;

EID: 0030131781     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(95)00464-5     Document Type: Article

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