Google-Earth Based Visualizations for Environmental Flows and Pollutant Dispersion in Urban Areas.

ABSTRACT: In the present study, we address the development and application of an efficient tool for conversion of results obtained by an integrated computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational reaction dynamics (CRD) approach and their visualization in the Google Earth. We focus on results typical for environmental fluid mechanics studies at a city scale that include characteristic wind flow patterns and dispersion of reactive scalars. This is achieved by developing a code based on the Java language, which converts the typical four-dimensional structure (spatial and temporal dependency) of data results in the Keyhole Markup Language (KML) format. The visualization techniques most often used are revisited and implemented into the conversion tool. The potential of the tool is demonstrated in a

SUBMITTER: Liu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5369083 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature