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Air pollution calculations for urban areas

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Urban Air Pollution Modelling

Part of the book series: Air Pollution Problems Series ((AIRPP))

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Abstract

It is necessary first of all to define the words ‘model’ and ‘modelling’ clearly and definitively, as the colloquial use of technical jargon frequently causes the meanings of words to deviate from their original sense.

‘For the sake of persons of different types of mind, scientific truth should be presented in different forms and should be regarded as equally scientific whether it appears in the robust form of the physical illustration or the beauty and paleness of a symbolical expression.’

CLERK MAXWELL

‘Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Maxwell’s genius is that, as soon as he had worked out the mathematical formulae of his theory, he discarded his model by means of which he reached it…. all that remained were “fields” of an abstract non-substantial nature, and the mathematical formalism which described the propagation of real waves in an apparently non-existent medium.’

A. KÖSTLER

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  1. Institut National de Recherche Chimique Appliquée, Vert-le-Petit, France

    Michel M. Benarie Chem. Eng., D.Sc. (Head of Department of Air Pollution)

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Benarie, M.M. (1980). Air pollution calculations for urban areas. In: Urban Air Pollution Modelling. Air Pollution Problems Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03639-4_2

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