Pollutant Dispersion Prediction in Airports

ISBN-13: 9783639124798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 124 str.

Sandipan Kumar Das

Opis

This book is wholly based on the doctoral researchconducted by the author at Stanford University underthe guidance of Prof. Paul Durbin. Air pollution isone of the challenges faced by mankind today. Thereis a growing demand for accurate and efficientpredictive tools in the atmospheric and environmentalsciences. Modeling and simulation of dispersion ofpollutants in the atmosphere have interestedenvironmental scientists and meteorologists fordecades. However, the currently availabletechnologies that are sufficiently accurate arecomputationally expensive and not practicallyfeasible for many real life problems. This book is anattempt to address that need. The science behind theLagrangian stochastic models (LSMs) is explored inthat regard and a new technique for constructingLSMs by incorporating second moment closureturbulence modeling theory is formulated. Thetechnology of applying this LSM for practical use inan airport environment is demonstrated. Bothresearchers and engineers in the stochasticturbulence modeling community and the environmentalsciences will find direct relevance of the book intheir work.

O autorze

Sandipan Kumar Das, PhD: Sandipan obtained his doctoral degree in
mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He has multiple
years of experience in turbulence modeling and computational fluid
dynamics (CFD). Currently, he is employed as a scientist in a CFD
company in the Bay Area, USA.