Applications of an Embedded Seamless Hybrid RANS/LES Approach for Turbulent Dispersion over Complex Urban Areas

This work presents an application of a RANS/LES hybrid approach in simulating flows and turbulent dispersion in complex urban areas. It is demonstrated that the<br/>hybrid approach correctly captures the time-dependent behavior of the wake regions behind buildings, resulting in improvements of the total turbulent kinetic energy and, consequently...

Numerical Modeling of the Macroscopic Behavior of a Crowd of People under Emergency Conditions Triggered by an Incidental Release of a Heavy Gas: an Integrated Approach

In the present study, we focus on modeling and simulations of macroscopic behavior of a crowd of people under emergency conditions. We present a newly developed integrated numerical approach, which combines the time-dependent RANS method in predicting the temporal and spatial evolution of a heavy gas turbulent dispersion with the macroscopic...