Pollutant dispersion simulation for low wind speed condition by the ILS method

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 34, 2005, Pages 6282-6288

  Carvalho, Jonas C ^a   De Vilhena, Marco Túllio M B ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE LUTERANA DO BRASIL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Air pollution modeling; Autocorrelation function; Lagrangian particle model; Low wind speed condition; Model evaluation; Picard iterative method

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

AIR POLLUTION MODELING; AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE MODEL; LOW WIND SPEED CONDITION; MODEL EVALUATION; PICARD ITERATIVE METHOD;

DISPERSIONS;

TRACER;

DISPERSION; MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WIND;

EID: 26044474195     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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