Obstacles influence on existing urban canyon ventilation and air pollutant concentration: A review of potential measures

R Buccolieri, OS Carlo, E Rivas, JL Santiago… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Air pollution in cities, especially in existing urban canyons, poses a global significant long-
term health risk to the urban population, and urban planners are faced with the challenge of …

Numerical analysis of solid barrier heights and trees with porosity properties influence on the automobile's emission dispersion in the residential area

A Issakhov, A Abylkassymova - Ecological Modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper is investigated the comprehensive study of the nitrogen dioxide pollution
distribution in a specific street in Almaty city, Kazakhstan. It was given a generalized …

Numerical study of air pollution exposure in idealized urban street canyons: Porous and solid barriers

A Issakhov, A Tursynzhanova, A Abylkassymova - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, it was considered the numerical modeling of concentration propagation using
solid barriers and porous barriers of different heights in an idealized urban canyon to protect …

Effects of wind speed and atmospheric stability on the air pollution reduction rate induced by noise barriers

N Reiminger, X Jurado, J Vazquez, C Wemmert… - Journal of Wind …, 2020 - Elsevier
People around the world increasingly live in urban areas where traffic-related emissions can
reach high levels, especially near heavy-traffic roads. It is therefore necessary to find short …

Impacts of noise barriers on near-viaduct air quality in a city: A case study in Xi'an

B Li, Z Qiu, J Zheng - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Viaducts built in cities all over the world can increase their traffic capacity. Yet whether
specific dispersion and reduction strategies for traffic-related pollutants, such as ultrafine …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of noise barriers on viaducts on pollutant dispersion in complex street canyons

T Ming, F He, Y Wu, T Shi, C Su, C Wang, Z Li… - Energy and Built …, 2023 - Elsevier
The noise reduction effect of noise barriers has been extensively studied, but the effect on
pollutant dispersion remains unclear. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is …

Modeling and analysis of the effects of noise barrier shape and inflow conditions on highway automobiles emission dispersion

S Wang, X Wang - Fluids, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recent research has suggested that noise barriers have significant impacts on near-road
automobile emissions reduction. T-shaped noise barriers have better performance on …

Near-field dynamics and plume dispersion after an on-road truck: Implication to remote sensing

J Xie, CH Liu, Z Mo, Y Huang, WC Mok - Science of The Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Apart from the aerodynamic performance (efficiency and safety), the wake after an on-road
vehicle substantially influences the tailpipe pollutant dispersion (environment). Remote …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity of AERMOD (V21112) RLINEXT dispersion model outputs by source type to variability in single noise barrier height and separation distance

H Lu, D Kim, H Liu, T Xia, W Reichard… - Atmospheric Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) introduced the RLINEXT
modeling feature in the latest versions of AERMOD (since version v21112) to predict traffic …

Investigation of simultaneous effects of noise barriers on near-road noise and air pollutants

MN Tezel-Oguz, M Marasli, D Sari, N Ozkurt… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Noise barriers are one of the common solutions to control road traffic noise. Many studies
have also shown that noise barriers cause reductions in near-road air pollutant …