Stack gas dispersion measurements with Large Scale-PIV, Aspiration Probes and Light Scattering Techniques and comparison with CFD

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3396-3406

  Nakiboǧlu, Güneş ^a   Gorlé, Catherine ^a,b   Horváth, István ^a   van Beeck, Jeroen ^a   Blocken, Bert ^c  

^a VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL); Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Dispersion; Light Scattering Technique (LST); Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV); Turbulent Schmidt Number; Wind tunnel fluid modeling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (ABL); LIGHT SCATTERING TECHNIQUE (LST); PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV); TURBULENT SCHMIDT NUMBER; WIND-TUNNEL FLUID MODELING;

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUE GASES; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; LIGHT SCATTERING; MIXED CONVECTION; PROBES; REFRACTION; SCATTERING; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; TROPOSPHERE; TUNNELS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

WIND TUNNELS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; WIND TUNNEL;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CLOUD; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 67349098132     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.03.047     Document Type: Article

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