INDIRECT DETERMINATION OF THE TURBULENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS

O. V. Nagornov,a E. S. Sokolov,a and V. E. Tchijovb

UDC 519.6:537.84

By solving the inverse problem, the method of indirect 
determination of the turbulent diffusion coefficients (TDCs) has been 
developed. The application of this method to the case where the TDCs 
are constant and where the altitude dependence of the vertical TDC 
is present has been considered. The requirements imposed on the number 
of measurement points of the pollutant concentrations at which the 
TDCs can still be recovered have been established. The proposed method 
provides determination of the TDCs in a wide range of values under 
different meteorological conditions.

aMoscow Engineering Physics 
Institute (State University), Moscow, Russia; email: nagornov@dpt39.mephi.ru; 
bNational Independent University (Nacional 
Universidad Autonoma de Mexico), Mexico City, Mexico. Translated from 
Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 155-159, March-April, 
2003. Original article submitted March 7, 2002.