Fugitive Dust Model (FDM) (for microcomputers). Model-Simulation

Technical Report · Tue May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6657392

Carey, P

The Fugitive Dust Model (FDM) is a computerized air quality model specifically designed for computing concentration and deposition impacts from fugitive dust sources. The sources may be point, line or area sources. The model has not been designed to compute the impacts of buoyant point sources, thus it contains no plume-rise algorithm. The model is generally based on the well-known Gaussian Plume formulation for computing concentrations, but the model has been specifically adapted to incorporate an improved gradient-transfer deposition algorithm. Emissions for each source are apportioned by the user into a series of particle size classes. A gravitational setting velocity and a deposition velocity are calculated by FDM for each class. Concentration and deposition are computed at all user selectable receptor locations...Software Description: The model is written in the Fortran programming language for implementation on an IBM PC compatible using the DOS operating system.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Seattle, WA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6657392
• Report Number(s): PB-90-502410/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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540120* -- Environment
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AIR POLLUTION MONITORING
AIR QUALITY
ALGORITHMS
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
COMPUTERS
DIFFUSION
DIGITAL COMPUTERS
DUSTS
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
F CODES
FORTRAN
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MICROCOMPUTERS
POLLUTION SOURCES
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
SIMULATION