Plume rise and spread in buoyant releases from elevated sources in the lower atmosphere

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 201-219

  Marro, M ^a   Salizzoni, P ^a   Cierco, F X ^a   Korsakissok, I ^b   Danzi, E ^c   Soulhac, L ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Buoyancy flows; Lagrangian models; Plume rise; Pollutant dispersion

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84892484974     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-013-9300-9     Document Type: Article

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