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A modelling system for the simulation of the flow and dispersion from the mesoscale down to the urban microscale is under development. This modelling system is a microscale version of the regional off-line system RMS (RAMS-MIRS-SPRAY) — MicroRMS. A modified version of RAMS6.0 is used, in which a Cartesian grid and the ADaptive Aperture method are implemented for defining the presence of buildings in arbitrarily steep topography and where alternative versions of the k-ε turbulence closure model were incorporated. After RAMS, the Lagrangian stochastic dispersion model MicroSPRAY is applied, specially devoted to simulate accidental gaseous releases at microscales, including the presence of obstacles and buildings. At present, the efforts are focused on the development of a micro-version of the interface code MIRS, calculating the surface and boundary layers’ parameters and the Lagrangian variables. The first step in the project was to harmonize the treatment of buildings between RAM6.0 and MicroSPRAY approaches. Here we present the first tests of MicroRMS prototype, applied to the MUST exercise of Cost732 Action, a flow and dispersion field test carried out in the Great Basin Desert (USA) in 2001, where 120 standard containers were set up in a regular array of obstacles.
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Castelli, S.T., Reisin, T.G., Tinarelli, G. (2008). Development and Application of MicroRMS Modelling System to Simulate the Flow, Turbulence and Dispersion in the Presence of Buildings. In: Borrego, C., Miranda, A.I. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XIX. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8453-9_9
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