OLAF -- A General Modeling System to Evaluate and Optimize the Location of an Air Polluting Facility
Project Report

Jörg Fliege
Fachbereich Mathematik
University of Dortmund
44221 Dortmund
Germany
email fliege@math.uni-dortmund.de

Acknowledgments This work was sponsored by the Region Bruxelles Capital under a "Research in Brussels" grant.

I would hereby like to express my gratitude to Prof. Dr. F. Plastria from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for the kind hospitality, his encouragement, and the many fruitful discussions I enjoyed with him during my stay at the Vakgroep Beleidsinformatica. Moreover, I would like to thank my coworkers and colleagues of the Faculteit van de Economische, Sociale en Politieke Wetenschappen for their help.

 
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • Motivation
  • Overview
    • Two Main Questions
    • The Submodules
• Meteorology
  • The Meteorological Preprocessor
  • The Air Dispersion Model
• Ecology and Chemokinetics
  • Compartment Models
    • The Standard Model
      • Mass Conservation and Nonnegativity
      • Numerics
    • Metabolism
  • Ecosystems and Food Webs
  • Individual based Chemokinetic Models
  • Age-Classes
  • Finite-Difference Schemes are Compartment Models
• Toxicology
  • The Cytodynamic Multistage Model
• Optimization
  • The Objective Function
    • The Effect Function
      • Alternatives
    • The Objective Function
    • The Gradient of the Objective Function
  • Optimization
    • Constraints
    • The Algorithm
• A Numerical Study
  • Data
    • Population Data
    • Land Use Data
    • Meteorological Data
    • Pollutant Data
  • Modeling Issues
    • Meteorologics
    • Chemokinetics
    • Cytodynamics
    • The Effect Function
    • Constraints
  • Computational Issues
  • Results
• Conclusions
• References
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