OLAF - A General Modeling System to Evaluate and Optimize
the Location of an Air Polluting Facility
OLAF (Optimal Locating Air Polluting
Facilities) is a general software package for
modeling and optimizing the effects of a low toxic air pollutant on the
inhabitants of different land-based ecosystems.
The pollution load can be traced through different ecotrophic levels,
while health effects are quantified on the basis of detailed cytodynamic
effects in different organs and tissues.
The software system does not only evaluate quantitatively the effects of a
proposed decision, but uses an efficient optimization technique to optimize
the location of a polluting facility with respect to the adverse effects of
the total pollution load.
You can download the paper as
.dvi- (0.6MB),
postscript- (26MB, lots of pictures included), and
zipped postscript-file (1.2MB).
Alternatively, you might want to take a look at the
online version
(html version 2.0, for those who have to use specific browsers)
Some pictures from the project report:
Setup and Iterations
Left: the computational domain.
Right: the iteration path.
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Pollutant effects
Pollution effect before (left) and after (right) optimization.
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Some Bookmarks
Pollution Dispersion
- GRASS GIS Europe pages
- FEMur - References on Finite Element Technology
- Fachinformation Umweltschutz
- Environmental Programs Products
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling
- LOTOS: Numerical Algorithms for Air Quality Modeling
- European Topic Centre on Air Quality Model Documentation System
- Glossary of Weather Terms
- Combustion Emission Simulation Software
- ladm
- Technical Reports of Interest to the Aerosol
- Hazardous Atmospheric Release Modeling
- MM5 Modeling System Structure
- EURAD-HOME
Lists of Models
- European Topic Centre on Air Quality
- Software
- Support Center for Regulatory Air Models
-
- Database
- Directory of /misc/environment/envent/air_model
- GAIA Model Base Air quality simulation models
- CSMoS Models Page
Danish Models
Gaussian Plume Models
- Gaussian Plume Dispersion
- Gaussian Plume Modeling
- VITO - Centre of Expertise REMOTE SENSING AND ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES
- Department description - long
- DREAM
Books
- epm-09
- Fundamentals Of Stack Gas Dispersion
Puff Models
- Evaluation
- Integrating Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling with ARC/INFO
- RIMPUFF
Weather Data
- Dataset Search Results
- NOAA/FSL/FRD/MAB - RAOB
- Directory of /other_resources/meteorology-faq
- DWD * Datenservice fr wissenschaftliche Zwecke *
- Weather Data Archive
- Yahoo! Science:Earth Sciences:Meteorology
- Deutscher Wetterdienst - Home Page
- Welcome - Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
- Ancillary data on larry
- Welcome to the COARE Data Info System
- Unidata: Software and Weather Data for Universities
- Directory of /datasets
- An Introduction to Atmospheric and Oceanographic Datasets
- FASTEX Home Page
Population and Land Use
- UNEP/GRID - Sioux Falls Environmental Data-Sets Available On-Line
- Global Land Biosphere Data And Resources
- Gridded Population of the World (GPW)
Ecology
- WZ III
Ecology Books
- List of Textbooks on Ecological Modelling
- Fundamentals of Ecological Modelling
- Chemodynamics and Environmental Modeling
- Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology
- Register of Ecological Models (REM)
- Tiger Graphics Packages for model simulation
- http://www.efn.org/~ncap/factsheets.html
- Register of Ecological Models: E4CHEM
Toxicology & Pharmacokinetics
- Table of Contents, RADIATION-INDUCED CANCER FROM LOW-DOSE EXPOSURE
- RSH -- Introduction : Low Level Radiation Health Effects
- Pulmonary Function Tutorial - Pulmonary Mechanics
- Perchloroethylene
- Respiratory System
- Uncertainty Analysis of Transport-Transformation Models: Ph.D. Thesis
- http://www-aes.tamu.edu/doug/MED/PGPHH.HTM
- IndexBelle
- Elimination Rate Constant / Half-Life
- HHU - Institut fr Pharmakologie - Skriptum Pharmakokinetik
- The ESG Biology Hypertextbook Home Page
- Brief background of PBPK Modelling
- Brief description of QSAR
- RIP: A Probabilistic Performance Assessment and Contaminant Transport Simulation Model
- Parameterizations of Relative Dispersion and their Effect on Modeling the Evolution of Atmospheric Plume Photochemistry
- A Two Dimensional Numerical Model for Simulating the Movement and Biodegradation of Contaminants in a Saturated Aquifer
- Coordinate Systems Overview
- Poisson Probability Distribution
Fortran and Programming
Numerical Analysis
- Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems, 2nd Edition
- Why not use Numerical Recipes?
- Numerical methods
- FAQ: Numerical Analysis & Associated Fields Resource Guide
- www.validgh.com Home Page
Fortran
- Fortran 77 Tutorial
- FORTRAN 77 Lesson Plans
- Fortran 77 Summary User Guide
- Fortran 77 Coding Guidelines
- Fortran Market
- LAPACK Users' Guide
Release 2.0
- Alan Miller's Primary Web Page
- Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems, 2nd Edition
- A compendium of NP optimization problems
- The Graph Template Library (GTL)
Software
- Powertweak Linux
- Directory of /pub/Linux/MIRROR.KDE
- The Linux Software Map (LSM)
- [fm] welcome to freshmeat.net
- Index of /pub/Linux
- Scilab Primer
- FileWatcher.org
- SAL -- Scientific Applications on Linux -- Main Category and Search Engine
- Precision Insight
Math
- arXiv.org e-Print archive
- MDO Test Suite Home Page
- Des Higham's Home Page
- Large-Scale Optimization: Model Problems
- The CUTE Test Problem Set
- Matlab Summary and Tutorial
- Mathematics Archives WWW Server
- Online Documentation (Help Desk) - Release 11
- CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics
- Global Optimization
- Bibliography for Optimization with Sensitivity Analysis
- Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics
- EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis