Bhopal gas accident: A numerical simulation of the gas dispersion event

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 135-141

  Sharan, Maithili ^a   Gopalakrishnan, S G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Bhopal gas leak; Dispersion; Lagrangian particle model; Marginally heavy gas; Meteorological model; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; LEAK DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VAPORS; WIND EFFECTS;

BHOPAL METHYL ISOCYANATE (MIC) GAS ACCIDENTS; GAS DISPERSION EVENTS; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE MODELS; MARGINALLY HEAVY GAS;

GAS EMISSIONS;

DISPERSION; GAS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

EID: 0031432548     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(96)00054-0     Document Type: Article

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