Dispersion from road tunnel portals: Comparison of two different modelling approaches

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 37, 2003, Pages 5165-5175

  Oettl, Dietmar ^a   Sturm, Peter ^a   Almbauer, Raimund ^a   Okamoto, Shin'ichi ^b   Horiuchi, Kenji ^c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Air quality; Jet flow; Lagrangian model; Road traffic; Taylor Galerkin method; Tunnel portal

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND;

TUNNEL EXHAUSTS;

TUNNELS;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AUSTRIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HIGHWAY; INSTRUMENTATION; JAPAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0242302465     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2003.09.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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