Some characteristics of a plume from a point source based on analytical solution of the two-dimensional advection-diffusion equation

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2221-2227

  Tirabassi, Tiziano ^a   Tiesi, Alessandro ^a   Buske, Daniela ^b,c   Vilhena, Marco T ^c   Moreira, Davidson M ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

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

^d UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PAMPA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Advection diffusion equation; Air pollution modelling; Analytical solution; Moments of concentration distribution

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AIR POLLUTION MODELLING; ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; GAUSSIAN MODELS; GROUND LEVEL CONCENTRATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORM TECHNIQUES; MOMENTS OF CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTION; POINT SOURCES; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; WIND SPEED PROFILES;

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIFFUSION; LAPLACE EQUATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCHANNELS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ADVECTION;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GAUSSIAN METHOD; PLUME; POINT SOURCE;

EID: 62749124271     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.01.020     Document Type: Article

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