Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants in West Mediterranean Areas: Mathematical Model

Josué-Antonio Nescolarde-Selva^{1, 2,} , José-Luis Usó-Doménech¹ and Meng Fan²

¹Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

²School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Cite this paper:
Josué-Antonio Nescolarde-Selva, José-Luis Usó-Doménech and Meng Fan. Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants in West Mediterranean Areas: Mathematical Model. American Journal of Systems and Software. 2016; 4(2):40-45. doi: 10.12691/ajss-4-2-2

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to present a mass conservative method for solving the one-dimensional equation of atmospheric pollutants transport, based on a finite volume method. In order to avoid numerical diffusion a trapezoid rule with a linear interpolation in the extremes of cells is used to approximate integrals. Air pollution problems can be treated by several techniques, we have used a spatial and time uniform grid, numerical results has been implemented in the computer program ATPOTRANS (Atmospheric Pollutants Transport).

Keywords:
atmospheric pollutants eulerian model finite volume schemes grid nodes numerical schemes

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