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Enhancements to AERMOD’s Building Downwash Algorithms based on Wind Tunnel and Embedded-LES Modeling
Citation:
Monbureau, E., S. Perry, AND D. Heist. Enhancements to AERMOD’s Building Downwash Algorithms based on Wind Tunnel and Embedded-LES Modeling. Building Downwash Summit, Research Triangle Park, NC, February 16, 2018.
Impact/Purpose:
Presented at the Building Downwash Workshop.
Description:
This presentation presents three modifications to the building downwash algorithm in AERMOD that improve the physical basis and internal consistency of the model, and one modification to AERMOD’s building pre-processor to better represent elongated buildings in oblique winds. These modifications are demonstrated to improve the ability of AERMOD to model observed ground-level concentrations in the vicinity of a building for the variety of conditions examined in wind tunnel and numerical studies.