Environmental Research at CMUWhile at CMU, I have had the pleasure to work on two research projects that aim to improve the quality of the air, not only in the greater Pittsburgh area, but hopefully on a more global scale in the not so distant future. While the goals of these projects may not be realized for several years to come it has still been an honour to work on these projects and I have learned a great deal while working on them.
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Vegetation Turbulence Modeling |
The goal of this research project is to look at verious source terms for vegetetation induced turbulence. We then compare simulations run with these various models against experimental wind tunnel results to find which term works the best. We then want to create a model that looks at how vehicle emissions are filtered down wind by vegetation. The final paper can be viewed here.
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Portable Air Quality Sensor Box |
The overall goal of this project is to deploy 50 or so sensor boxes in the greater Pittburgh area. This will allow people in various neighborhoods to get a real time value of the air quality outside their holmes. I am in charge of developing a test, calibration, and drift protocol for these boxes. Currently we have one box streaming data from just outside charge car to a server online to public acces. The goal is to have this data represented in some meaningful form to the public soon. If you are interested you can check out the data stream at the follwing link http://54.187.54.208/CMUAQ/v1/data/s3/
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