PRISE: Plume Rise and Dispersion Model

DESCRIPTION

The model PRISE (Plume RISE) calculates all of the phases (rising, bending over the (quasi-) equilibrium dispersion) of the behaviour of the plume emitted by a stack in atmosphere or by a pipe in deep water, in one continuous formulation, taking fully into account the ambient meteorological (hydraulic) conditions. The atmosphere is parametrised as consisting of two layers: a neutral layer with a lapse rate equal to the dry adiabatic and an overlying stable layer (extending to infinity). Three wind speed profiles are available: constant with height, logarithmic and logarithmic based on a user-input roughness length.

Keywords

description: air quality, gaussian plume, plume elevation, effective height
objectives: simulation
application: single source, short term, short range, plume height

SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY

      
         The package can be purchased from:      
             Computational Mechanics publications      
             Ashurst Lodge      
             Ashurst, Southampton      
             SO4 2AA, UK      
             Phone: 44 (0) 703 293223      
             Fax  : 44 (0) 703 292853      
             E-Mail: CMI@ib.rl.ac.uk      
         

AUTHORS

      
            Brian Henderson-Sellers      
            Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Sciences      
            University of Salford      
            Salford M5 4WT      
            England      
         

REFERENCES

• Briggs, G.A., 1975, Plume rise predictions, in Lectvres on Air Pollution and Environmental Impact Analyses, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, Mass, 59-111.
• Henderson-Sellers, B., 1987, Modeling of Plume Rise and Dispersion - The University of Salford Model: U.S.P.R., Volume 25, Lecture Notes in Engineering" Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 113pp.
• Henderson-Sellers, B. and Allen, S.E., 1985, Verification of the plume rise/dispersion model U.S.P.R.: Plume rise for single stack emissions, Ecological Modelling, 30, 209-227.
• Pasquill, F., 1985, Boundary layer meteorology - eddy transfer and dispersion, in Recent Advances in Meteorology and Physical OceanoDraphy, Royal Meteorological Society, Bracknell, Berks, 15-26.

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