Michel C. Boufadel

TL;DR: The studies performed during the past years on the wind-flow field around buildings are reviewed and errors that can produce poor results when numerically modelling wind flow and dispersion fields around buildings in urban environments are identified.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present field data and numerical simulations of a two-layered beach with a small freshwater recharge in the contaminated area, where a high permeability upper layer is underlain by a low-permeability lower layer, and find that the upper layer temporarily stored the oil, while it slowly and continuously filled the lower layer wherever the water table dropped below the interface of the two layers, as a result of low freshwater recharge from the land.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of tides and buoyancy on beach hydraulics in the presence of a seaward groundwater flow due to an elevated “regional” water table were investigated.

TL;DR: The droplet size distribution of dispersed phase (oil and/or gas) in submerged buoyant jets was addressed in this work using a numerical model, VDROP-J, which correlated very well with data and was used to predict the droplets size distribution from Deepwater Horizon blowouts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the seawater-groundwater circulation in shallow beach aquifers using the finite element model MARUN, and obtained results that apply to a wide range of beach permeabilities from 10 � 4 m/s to 10 � 3 m /s, beach slopes from 3.16% to 31.6%, tidal amplitude (0.3 m-2 m) and period (diurnal or semidiurnal).