READ ME File For 'Dataset for "Experimentally Modelling Urban Air Pollution and Measuring Turbulent Dispersion"

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D3400

ReadMe Author: Tomos Rich, University of Southampton 0000-0002-6259-4225

This dataset supports the thesis entitled Experimentally Modelling Urban Air Pollution and Measuring Turbulent Dispersion
AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: 2025

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA

The folders containing data associated with the tall building chapter contains example mean and instantaneous flow fields,
along with code showing how they can be viewed.

The folders containing data for the city study, and PLIF validation chapters contain the .fig files of the 
graphs included in the thesis. These can be viewed in Matlab. In these cases raw data was not included as the raw
datasets are large.

All data was collected using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) optical techniques.
PIV data was preprocessed using Davis 10.2 and then post processed using Matlab code. 
PLIF data was processed fully using Matlab code.
All data is viewable in Matlab, either as flow field data or as Matlab figures.


Date of data collection: Winter 2021 (Tall Building data), Summer 2022 (Rhodamine jet data), Winter 2022 (City study data)

Information about geographic location of data collection: All data was collected at the University of Southampton

Licence:  Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY

Related projects/Funders:
This was funded by the UK Research and Innovation Future Leadership Fellowship: Simulating urban air pollution in the lab (MR/S015566/1)

Related publication:
Pollutant Dispersion Around a Single Tall Building https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-024-00874-w

Date that the file was created: March 2025