Identification of pollution sources in urban areas using reverse simulation with reversed time marching method

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 275-282

  Bady, Mahmoud ^a   Kato, Shinsuke ^b   Huang, Hong ^b  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air quality; CFD; Reverse simulation; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; FLOW FIELDS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LAMINAR FLOW;

CONCENTRATION FIELDS; PEAK CONCENTRATIONS; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; REVERSE SIMULATION; SATISFACTORY DEGREE; SCALAR TRANSPORT EQUATION; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION; URBAN AREAS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 68349150526     PISSN: 13467581     EISSN: 13472852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3130/jaabe.8.275     Document Type: Article

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