Course Details

Introduction: addressing the main physical laws that determine the behavior of gaseous, liquid and solid pollutants.

Numerical Simulation: the two main approaches to the simulation of pollutant turbulent dispersionof pollutants are addressed: Eulerian and Lagrangian.

Atmospheric pollutant dispersion:

• Introduction to the basic principles of atmospheric physics – introduction to meteorology.
• Analysis of the physical mechanisms and the methods for numerical simulation of a single particle trajectory.
• Introduction to the concept of plumes – mathematical description and the Gauss model.
• Overview of contemporary numerical tools and applications.

Numerical simulation of atmospheric pollutant turbulent dispersion:

• Numerical simulation with EPA’s AERMOD simulation package.
• Advanced mathematical modeling of plume interaction with atmospheric stability conditions and
  complex terrain.
• Case study for actual topography and atmospheric conditions