Air pollution dispersion from rooftop emissions around hexahedron buildings was investigated using computational fluid dynamics (referred to hereafter as CFD). The Shear Stress Transport (referred to hereafter as SST) k-ω model in FLUENT CFD code was used to simulate the flow and pollution dispersion around the hexahedron buildings. The two buildings used in the study had the dimensions of H: L: W (where H = height, L = length, and W = width) with the ratios of 1:1:1 and 1:1:2. Experimental data from the wind tunnel obtained by a previous study was used to validate the numerical result of the hexahedron building. Five validation metrics are used to obtain an overall and quantitative evaluation of the performance of SST k-ω models: the fractional bias (FB), the geometric mean bias (MG), the normalized mean square errors (NMSE), the geometric variance (VG), and the factor of 2 of the observations (FAC2). The results of vertical concentration profile and longitudinal surface concentration of the 1:1:2 building illustrate the reasonable performance for all five metrics. However, the lateral concentration profile at X = 3H (where X is the distance from the source) shows poor performance for all of the metrics with the exception of NMSE, and the lateral concentration profile at X = 10H shows poor performance for FB and MG.

PURPOSES : The objective of this study is to investigate the capability of the combined model of traffic simulation, emission and air dispersion models on the impact analysis of air quality of mobile sources such as vehicles. METHODS : The improvement of the quality of life brings about the increasing interest of the public environment. Many endeavors including the travel demand management, the application of the state-of-the-art ITS technologies, the promotion of eco-friendly vehicles have been tried in transportation area to reduce the modal emissions. Especially, it is expected that the increasing number of eco-friendly vehicles in the road network would be able to reduce the pipe-tail emissions tremendously. From this perspective, we have performed a study on the impact analysis of the popularization of the eco-friendly vehicle in the place of the fossil fuel energy powered vehicles on the surrounding air quality using the combined framework of microscopic traffic simulation, emission and air dispersion model. RESULTS : The combined model successfully captured the effect of moving to the eco-friendly vehicles on the air quality, and the results showed that the increasing usage of eco-friendly vehicles can improve the surrounding air quality tremendously and that the air dispersion model plays a crucial role in the investigation of the air quality change around the main corridor. CONCLUSIONS : This study demonstrated the capability of the combined model showing the spatio-tempral change of emission concentration.

구제역 바이러스는 소나 돼지 등의 우제류 가축에 경구 또는 흡입 노출 등의 다양한 노출 경로를 통해 심각한 감염성을 유발하는 생물학적 유해인자로 국내 축산업 운영에 있어 막대한 경제적 손실을 초래하는 병원균들 중 하나다. 구제역 발병에 대한 사전적 예방 관리를 도모할 수 있는 조치 방안 중 하나는 공기를 통해 전파되는 구제역 바이러스 확산에 대해 수학적 모델 적용을 통해 예측된 분석 결과에 따라 설정될 수 있다. 대기 확산 모델들은 일반적으로 구제역 바이러스의 주요 전파 경로인 경구 및 접촉 감염의 노출 시나리오를 예측할 수는 없으나, 상대적으로 예측도가 높은 대기 확산 모델의 경우 공기 전파에 대한 구제역 바이러스의 위해성 관리 방안을 결정하는 데 주요 역할을 담당할 수 있는 유용가능한 수단으로 여러 나라에서 활용되어 왔다. 구제역 바이러스 전파를 억제하기 위한 엄격한 관리 방안 중 다량의 가축 살처분 방법은 축산 농가들에게 심각한 경제적 손실을 초래하여 심각한 경우 새로운 자립의 여건마저도 상실시킬 수도 있다. 반면 낮은 수준의 대응 방안은 향후 구제역 발생에 따른 추가적 피해를 근원적으로 억제할 수 없는 역학적 한계에 봉착할 수 있다. 본 연구는 구제역 바이러스의 기본 특성 및 발생 모델 적용에 따른 공기 중 전파의 감염 위험성 평가 관련 선행 문헌들을 고찰하였다. 또한 1970년대 이후 구제역 바이러스의 공기 전파 경로를 예측하기 위해 여러 나라에서 실제 활용된 다양한 대기 확산 모델들의 적용 사례 및 장/단점을 비교 분석하였다.

Air mass recirculation is a common characteristic in the coastal area as a result of the land-sea breeze circulation. This study simulates the recirculation of air mass over the Gwangyang Bay using WRF-FLEXPART and offers a basic information about the effective domain size that can reflect recirculation. For this purpose, WRF is set up four nested domains and three cases are selected. Subsequently FLEXPART is operated on the basis of WRF output. During the clear summer days with weak wind speed, particles that emitted from Yeosu national industrial complex and Gwangyang iron works flow into emission sources because of the land-sea breeze. When land-sea breeze is strengthen, the recirculation phenomena appears clearly. However particles aren't recirculated under weak synoptic condition. Also plume trajectory is analyzed and as a consequence, the smallest domain area have to be multiplied by 1.3 to understand recirculated dispersion pattern of particles.

The air pollutant emission is mainly caused by line sources in urban area. For example, the annually totaled air pollutant emission is known to consist of about 80% of line sources in Daegu. Hence, the appropriate assessment on the air pollutants of line sources is very important for the atmospheric environmental management in urban area. In this study, we made a comparative study to evaluate suitable dispersion model for estimating the air pollution from line sources. Two air pollution dispersion models, ISCST3 and CALINE4 were the subject of this study. The results were as follows; In the assessment of air pollution model, ISCST3 was found to have 4 times higher concentration than CALINE4. In addition, actual data obtained by measurement and estimated values by CALINE4 were generally identical. The air pollution assessment based on ISC3 model produced significantly lower values than actual data. The air pollution levels estimated by ISCST3 were very low in comparison with the observational values.