MERCURE

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MERCURE is an atmospheric dispersion modeling CFD code developed by Électricité de France (EDF) and distributed by ARIA Technologies, a French company.^[1]^[2]

MERCURE is a version of the CFD software ESTET, developed by EDF's Laboratoire National d'Hydraulique. Thus, it has directly benefited from the improvements developed for ESTET. When requested, ARIA integrates MERCURE as a module into the the ARIA RISK software for use in industrial risk assessments.

1 Features of the model
2 Users of the model
3 See also
- 3.1 Air pollution dispersion models
- 3.2 Others
4 Further reading
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Features of the model

MERCURE is particularly well adapted to perform air pollution dispersion modelling on local or urban scales. Some of the models capabilities and features are:

Pollution source types: Point or line sources, continuous or intermittent.

Pollution plume types: Buoyant or dense gas plumes.

Deposition: The model is capable of simulating the deposition or decay of plume pollutants.

[edit] Users of the model

There are many organizations that have used MERCURE. To name a few:

Electricite de France (EDF)
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d’Acoustique (LMFA) de l'École Centrale de Lyon, France
Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN), Fontenay, France
The Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), Bologna, Italy
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

[edit] See also

[edit] Air pollution dispersion models

[edit] Others

[edit] Further reading

For those who are unfamiliar with air pollution dispersion modelling and would like to learn more about the subject, it is suggested that either one of the following books be read:

Turner, D.B. (1994). Workbook of atmospheric dispersion estimates: an introduction to dispersion modeling, 2nd Edition, CRC Press. ISBN 1-56670-023-X. www.crcpress.com
Beychok, M.R. (2005). Fundamentals Of Stack Gas Dispersion, 4th Edition, self-published. ISBN 0-9644588-0-2. www.air-dispersion.com

[edit] References

^ Model Documentation System of the European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change.
^ Buty D., J.Y. Caneill and B. Carissimo (1988), Simulation numerique de la couche limite atmospherique en terrain complexe au moyen d'un modele mesometeorologique non hydrostatique: le code MERCURE, J. Theor. Appl. Mech., 7, 35-62.