AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 15 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW-180031
RESEARCH ARTICLE

An ENVI-met Simulation Study on Influence of Urban  Vegetation Congestion on Pollution Dispersion

Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad1* Hadis Salehnejad1 Nina Moradi1
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1 High-Performance Architecture Lab, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
AJWEP 2018, 15(2), 187–194; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW-180031
Submitted: 4 September 2017 | Revised: 3 March 2018 | Accepted: 3 March 2018 | Published: 11 May 2018
© 2018 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

This paper is to assess the impact of the vegetation accumulation on the air pollution dispersion. In  order to analyze the idea of the paper for examining the influence of vegetation, two parks in different scales were  selected by purpose which are at the same distance from the pollution source. Envi-met (version 3) was selected  as research tool based on methodology of the research. Two parks with various scales (local and urban scale)  and equal vegetation accumulation were simulated in three cases (status quo or 12%, 37% and 62% vegetation  density) and analyzed in quantitative results and graphic images. The results revealed that the extent of area and  congestion of vegetation is directly related to decreasing air pollution (CO concentration). Vegetation congestion  impact on CO concentration is more impressive for urban scale compared with local scale. The results indicate  that decrease of CO concentration in urban scale is going under a regular process. Otherwise, the relationship  between vegetation congestion and CO concentration will convert in 62% vegetation congestion. The conclusion  of this paper emphasizes that the intensity of vegetation is not always helpful and vegetation might be the cause  of intensifying air pollution under certain circumstances.

Keywords
Air pollution
vegetation congestion
Envi-met
natural ventilation
depollution of urban spaces
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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