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Gas & Pollutant Dispersion

How gases and pollutants travel on the wind, and where they accumulate.

Wind engineering study

What it is

Simulation of how gases and pollutants travel and accumulate through the urban wind field, mapping concentration and reach around a site. Used for industrial safety, environmental licensing and air-quality studies.

When you need it

When you handle, store or emit gases or pollutants near occupied areas and need to understand where a release travels, where it accumulates, how it dilutes and which zones are exposed - for safety cases and environmental licensing.

What we deliver

Concentration and reach mapped across the domain
Plume behavior under representative wind conditions
Identification of exposure and risk zones
Support for safety and environmental requirements

How we do it

1

Build a digital model of the site, the emission source and the surrounding buildings.

2

Run simulations of the wind field under representative atmospheric conditions.

3

Release the gas or pollutant and track its transport, accumulation, dilution and concentration.

4

Map exposure and risk zones to support safety and environmental requirements.

Real project

Gas dispersion - urban development

A gas dispersion study for an urban development served by a piped-gas network, simulating how a release travels through the surrounding wind field and where it accumulates - informing the safety case for the site layout.

Trusted & validated

Why you can trust our results

We are not a physical wind tunnel - we are a CFD specialist whose results are validated against wind tunnel measurements. AeroSim is an international reference in computational wind engineering.

Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics

Peer-reviewed

Published solver

JWEIA, 2026

Validated against wind tunnel
70+ consulting projects across the Americas and Europe
Peer-reviewed, published solver (JWEIA, 2026)
High-fidelity LES simulations

Peer-reviewed: Oliveira Jr., W., et al. “Nassu: A high performance LES solver for computational wind engineering”. Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics, 274 (2026) 106465.

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