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COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR APPLICATION OF CFD TO ESTIMATING HUMAN EXPOSURES TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS
Citation:
Huber, A H., M. Freeman, K. H. Kuehlert, AND W. Schwarz. COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR APPLICATION OF CFD TO ESTIMATING HUMAN EXPOSURES TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS. Presented at 2002 Fluent Users' Group Meeting, Manchester, NH, June 10-12, 2002.
Impact/Purpose:
The research is planned to meet the following objectives:
Support is provided to HEASD Tasks by Alan Huber. (60% 9524 New Air Toxics Modeling, ; 10% 5732 PM Population Exposure Modeling; 10% 3948 Next Generation MMMP Exposure Modeling; 10% N533 PM Toxic agent exposure modeling, and 10% 3957 Integrated Human Exposure Source-to-Dose Modeling)
Description:
Under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), Fluent, Inc. and the US EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) propose to improve the ability of environmental scientists to use computer modeling for environmental exposure to air pollutants in human exposure microenvironments. There is an ever-growing need for reliable tools that can assess human exposure to environmental pollutants. In recent years, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling has emerged as a promising technology for such assessment. CFD has the potential to yield more accurate solutions than other methodologies. Implementing CFD yields better predictions, because CFD is based on fundamental physics, on the effects of detailed three-dimensional geometry, and on local environmental conditions.