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RECORD NUMBER: 47 OF 2023

Main Title Addressing Human Exposures to Air Pollutants Around Buildings in Urban Areas with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Models.
Author Huber, A. ; Bolstad, M. ; Freeman, M. ; Rida, S. ; Bish, E. ;
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. National Exposure Research Lab. ;Lockheed Martin, Research Triangle Park, NC. ;National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Div. ;Fluent, Inc., Lebanon, NH.
Publisher 1999
Year Published 1999
Report Number EPA/600/A-00/078;
Stock Number PB2001-100156
Additional Subjects Environmental pollutants ; Simulations ; Modeling exposures ; Flow distribution ; Models ; Computational fluid dynamics(CFD)
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NTIS  PB2001-100156 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations provide a number of unique opportunities for expanding and improving capabilities for modeling exposures to environmental pollutants. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) has been conducting cooperative research with Fluent, Inc. to examine and evaluate the application of CFD models for simulating air pollution along the pathway from source to human exposures. The basic framework of population-based human exposure models separates a person's day into time spent in a series of exposure microenvironments. The environmental concentration in these exposure microenvironments is weighted by the time-spent in each microenvironment to provide to a total daily exposure. The detailed spatial resolution of environmental pollution concentrations that is possible from CFD simulations can provide important information that is not available from a single point measurement. There are multiple potential roles for CFD simulations in supporting human exposure studies which will be presented outside of this brief abstract. In this study, the authors are examining in detail the urban buildings and roadway microenvironments of human exposure to ambient air pollutants. This abstract can present only a summary of some of the issues the authors are examining and a few examples of progress.