Flow and dispersion in urban areas

RE Britter, SR Hanna - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Increasing urbanization and concern about sustainability and quality of life issues
have produced considerable interest in flow and dispersion in urban areas. We address this …

Progress in the scale modeling of urban climate

M Kanda - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2006 - Springer
This paper describes progress made in the scale modeling of urban climate. The studies
reviewed are mainly indoor and outdoor experiments that use an array of urban-like flow …

FLACS CFD air quality model performance evaluation with Kit Fox, MUST, Prairie Grass, and EMU observations

SR Hanna, OR Hansen, S Dharmavaram - Atmospheric Environment, 2004 - Elsevier
The FLACS CFD model, which can be used to estimate the flow and dispersion around
buildings and other large roughness obstacles, has been evaluated with tracer data from …

Concentration fluctuation measurements in a plume dispersing through a regular array of obstacles

E Yee, CA Biltoft - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2004 - Springer
We describe a comprehensivestudy of the statistical characteristicsof concentration
fluctuations in a neutrallybuoyant tracer plume dispersing through a largearray of building …

CFD and Gaussian atmospheric dispersion models: A comparison for leak from carbon dioxide transportation and storage facilities

A Mazzoldi, T Hill, JJ Colls - Atmospheric environment, 2008 - Elsevier
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is of interest to the scientific community as a way of
achieving significant global reduction of atmospheric CO2 emission in the medium term …

[HTML][HTML] State of the art in the quantitative risk assessment of the CCS value chain

F Tamburini, F Zanobetti, M Cipolletta… - Process Safety and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) emerges as a pivotal strategy in the global
pursuit of achieving a net-zero society by 2050. CCS technologies may play a strategic role …

Numerical simulations of pollutant dispersion in an idealized urban area, for different meteorological conditions

M Milliez, B Carissimo - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2007 - Springer
In order to estimate the impacts of buildings on air pollution dispersion, numerical
simulations are performed over an idealized urban area, modelled as regular rows of large …

Risks and Safety of CO2 Transport via Pipeline: A Review of Risk Analysis and Modeling Approaches for Accidental Releases

M Vitali, C Zuliani, F Corvaro, B Marchetti, A Terenzi… - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Carbon capture and storage is considered an effective mitigation strategy to reduce the most
challenging emissions from heavy industries and gas processing. The safe transport of …

Progress in urban meteorology: A review

M Kanda - 気象集誌. 第2 輯, 2007 - jlc.jst.go.jp
This paper reviews the progress made in urban meteorology over the past few decades. The
focus is on the impact of urban surfaces on the overlying atmosphere along the conventional …

Numerical simulations of the flow field and pollutant dispersion in an idealized urban area under different atmospheric stability conditions

D Guo, P Zhao, R Wang, R Yao, J Hu - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study simulated the flow and near-field plume dispersion in an urban-like environment
under unstable, neutral and stable atmospheric stratification using the steady Reynolds …