Atmospheric Dispersion
There are a wide variety of atmospheric dispersion models available to predict time-averaged exposure concentrations, but an individual receptor in a dispersing plume will see large variations in the instantaneous concentration caused by the natural variability of turbulent mixing. Acute toxic effects, odour detection, and other receptor responses are typically very sensitive to these high frequency concentration fluctuations.
Coanda has extensive experience with physical modeling of dispersion in our water channel, coupled with high speed data acquisition to measure concentration fluctuations. We have also developed software to produce ensembles of simulated exposure concentration time series with statistics and correlations that match the real atmospheric dispersion process.
