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CAIRDIO: city-scale air dispersion model with diffusive obstacles

Simulation 722 MB

Large-eddy simulation code for city-scale air dispersion in which buildings act as diffusive obstacles. Useful for urban dispersion modelling.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7409604
Licence
GPL-3.0+ Copyleft open-source licence: use and change it freely, but share any distributed changes under the same licence.
Size
722 MB

How to cite

Weger, M., Heinold, B., & Knoth, O. (2022). CAIRDIO City-Scale Air Dispersion Model with Diffusive Obstacles [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7409604

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Details

Resource
Software & tools
Method
LES
Geometry
City scale
Topic
Dispersion & air quality
Quantities
Concentration, Velocity
Codes / models
CAIRDIO
Year
2022
Creators
Michael Weger; Bernd Heinold; Oswald Knoth
Institution
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Permoserstr. 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany

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