Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Air Pollutant Dispersion in Street Canyons |
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Authors: | John M Crowther Abdel Galeil A A Hassan |
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Institution: | (1) School of the Built and Natural Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, U.K.;(2) Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt |
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Abstract: | The PHOENICS Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software package has been used with a standard k- turbulence model to simulate the three-dimensional dispersion of air pollutants in an urban street canyon. In all cases, a vortex was formed within the street canyon, characterized by updrafts near the upwind buildings and down-drafts near the downwind buildings. Contours of pollutant concentrations over a transverse vertical plane at mid-canyon show pollutants circulating within the vortex, with higher concentrations at the leeward face than at the windward faces, and higher concentrations above downwind buildings than above upwind buildings. Longitudinal distributions of pollutant concentrations at leeward and windward faces are characterized by higher concentrations at mid-block and lower concentrations at the ends. These results agree qualitatively with previous wind tunnel findings such as those of Hoydysh and Dabberdt (1988) and Wedding et al. (1977). The results also suggest that the k- turbulence model is satisfactory for simulating the effect of turbulence on dispersion of pollutants in street canyons |
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Keywords: | air pollution carbon monoxide Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling PHOENICS street canyon |
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