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Similarity Theory And Model Of Diffusion In Turbulent Atmosphere At Large Scales

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

21

Pages

10

Published

1997

Size

886 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/AIR970111

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

A.P. Trunev

Abstract

The turbulent diffusion model is submitted. The model is based on the similarity theory of random processes and is derived from "the first prin- ciples". The problem about turbulent diffusion of an impurity above an industrial region at specific emission is considered. The general solution of the problem in special case when the emission is a periodically function of time is obtained. 1 Introduction The theory of turbulent diffusion is a basic for the air pollution transport modeling. At the moment the models of turbulent transport are based mainly on the Monin-Obukhov theory of similarity [1] and hypothesis that the eddy diffusivity of an impurity is proportional to the eddy viscosity (Russell et al. [2]; Pugliese et al. [3]). In turn the turbulent eddy vis- cosity is determined from the empirical formulas (Busin

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