Mathematical Modeling for the Design of Greenbelts for Air Pollution Control: An Engineering Perspective

Extensive research has also been done on the pollution attenuation capability of different tree species [2-5].But, in comparison, much less is known on how to maximize gains from a greenbelt. The normal proactive is to put a circular ring of trees around a pollution source. But it is easy to see that such an approach is likely to have limited utility, if at all. This is because dispersion of particulates and gaseous pollutants never occurs radially in a uniform manner from the epicenter of the exiting plume. Rather, the dispersion is non-