文档介绍：Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment
10-15 January 2009, Phoenix Arizona
Rapid-response Urban CFD Simulations using a
puting Paradigm on Desktop puters
Inanc Senocak *, Julien Thibault and Matthew Caylor
Boise State University, Boise, ID
1. INTRODUCTION
In the event of chemical or biological (CB) agent model and proper mesh resolutions near solid
attacks or accidents, first-responders need hazard boundaries can have an impact on the predictions.
prediction data to launch effective emergency There is a strong need to develop rapid-response
response action. Accurate and timely knowledge of CFD-based contaminant transport and dispersion
the wind fields in urban areas is critically important to models for first responders. Given the recent
identify and project the extent of CB agent dispersion breakthroughs in both hardware and software for high
to determine the hazard-zone. In their 2008 report puting (Owens et al. 2008), it is
(GAO-08-180), . Government Accountability believed that with a careful selection of numerical
Office has reported that first responders are limited in methods and puting strategies, a CFD
their ability to detect and model hazardous releases solution of wind fields and CB agent dispersion within
in urban environments. The current set of plex urban environments can be delivered within
tools for co