TY  - CONF
T1  - Computational Fluid Dynamics as a tool to predict the air pollution dispersion in a neighborhood– A research project to improve the quality of life in cities
A1  - Triscone, Gilles
A1  - Abdennadher, Nabil
A1  - Balistreri, Christophe
A1  - Donzé, Olivier
A1  - Greco, Davide
A1  - Haas, Patrick
A1  - Haas‐Peköz, Hasret
A1  - Mohamed‐Nour, Tamer
A1  - Munier, Pierre
A1  - Pontelandolfo, Piero
A1  - Putzu, Roberto
A1  - Sthioul, Hervé
A1  - Delley, Nicolas
A1  - Choffat, David
A1  - Niederhäuser, Elena‐Lavinia
A1  - Schaer, Roger
A1  - Müller, Henning
A1  - Decaix, Jean
A1  - Richard, Sylvain
A1  - Münch‐Alligné, Cécile
A1  - Kunz, Pierre
A1  - Despot, Fabienne
TI  - Smart City Expo world congress
Y1  - 2014
CY  - Barcelone, Spain
KW  - air pollution
KW  - CFD
KW  - pollutants dispersion
N2  - In large cities, pollution composed of many different chemical components and small particles is an important public health problem that affects especially children and people presenting breathing difficulties.

One challenge for public authorities is to respect the norms given by the central state, but how? Today, concrete methods for reducing pollution are perceived by the majority of citizens as constraints. However, the authorities have the possibility of modifying the wind's action by imposing architectural constraints, such as building emplacement and roof structure. This is the main objective of the Geneva "Clean City" project financed by the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland.

"Clean City" focuses its research on one of Geneva’s polluted neighborhoods called Pâquis which is situated directly on the Geneva lake front. The project attempts to understand the dispersion of pollution from an experimental and a numerical point of view. After validation of the technique for a simple case, we compare environmental measurements on a 1/500 3D scale model of the Pâquis installed in an instrumented wind tunnel with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation obtained with the help of cloud computing. In Barcelona, we will show the first experimental measurements and simulated “Clean City” results.
M1  - 18-20.11.2014
ER  -