Numerical modelling of flow and dispersion around cinder cone butte

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1059-1071

  Apsley, David D ^a,b   Castro, Ian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric diffusion; Complex terrain; Computational fluid dynamics; Stable stratification

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIRFLOW; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BOUNDARY LAYER; PLUME; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; WIND;

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL PLUMES; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

EDDY VISCOSITY MODEL; HILL; TOPOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

DISPERSION; EDDIES; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL;

ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; COMPLEX TERRAIN; FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; STABLY STRATIFIED FLOW; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE;

USA, IDAHO, CINDER CONE BUTTE;

APUS APUS;

EID: 0030617317     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(96)00213-0     Document Type: Article

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