| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R91649/01 |
| Title: |
ROPA: Air Quality in Airport Approaches: Impact of Emissions Entrained by Vortices in Aircraft Wakes |
| Principal Investigator: |
Raper, Professor D |
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| Department: |
School of Science and the Environment |
| Organisation: |
Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Scheme: |
ROPA |
| Starts: |
01 June 2002 |
Ends: |
31 May 2003 |
Value (£): |
44,291
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Building Ops & Management |
Transport Ops & Management |
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| Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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Exhaust from aeroplanes is entrained within a pair of wingtip vortices trailing in their wake. An aeroplane exerts a downward force on the air, and so the wake must descend, as mediated through the action of the vortices on one another. Exhaust pollutants may thus be conveyed to the ground close to airports far more effectively than through ambient atmospheric dispersion alone, as has hitherto been been assumed occurs within air-quality models. A kinematic model of vortex-mediated pollutant transport will therefore be developed, harnessing results from dynamical models in the literature to estimate the size of the neglected term in ground-level concentrations.
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http://www.mmu.ac.uk |