A large eddy simulation of the dispersion of traffic emissions by moving vehicles at an intersection
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Traffic induced flow within urban areas can have a significant effect on pollution dispersion, particularly for traffic emissions. Traffic movement results in increased turbulence within the street and the dispersion of pollutants by vehicles as they move through the street. In order to accurately model urban air quality and perform meaningful exposure analysis at the microscale, these effects cannot be ignored. In this paper we introduce a method to simulate traffic induced dispersion at high resolution. The computational fluid dynamics software, Fluidity, is used to model the moving vehicles through a domain consisting of an idealised intersection. A multi-fluid method is used where vehicles are represented as a second fluid which displaces the air as it moves through the domain. The vehicle model is coupled with an instantaneous emissions model which calculates the emission rate of each vehicle at each time step. A comparison is made with a second Fluidity model which simulates the traffic emissions as a line source and does not include moving vehicles. The method is used to demonstrate how moving vehicles can have a significant effect on street level concentration fields and how large vehicles such as buses can also cause acute high concentration events at the roadside which can contribute significantly to overall exposure.
Date Issued
2019-10
Date Acceptance
2019-08-10
Citation
Atmospheric Environment, 2019, 215, pp.1-16
ISSN
1352-2310
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
1
End Page
16
Journal / Book Title
Atmospheric Environment
Volume
215
Copyright Statement
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231019305308?via%3Dihub
Grant Number
RG80519
Subjects
0907 Environmental Engineering
0401 Atmospheric Sciences
0104 Statistics
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Publication Status
Published online
Article Number
116891
Date Publish Online
2019-08-13