Homeland Security

Modeling Chemical Leaking and Dispersion in Oklahoma City

The project is a collaboration with the Oklahoma Climatological Survey and City of Oklahoma City to develop a simulation system for chemical dispersion in an urban environment. The system will aim emergency management in three ways;

• To simulate dispersion due to chemical leaking from transport, traffic accidents, or terrorist acts, and generate scenarios for emergency response
• To enable real-time emergency operation as an event unfolds
• To identify potential high-risk zones for accidental toxic chemical release, urban settings in favor of potential agent entrapment.

Example of chemical leaking dispersion modeling in 3-D

Dispersion mode                         3-D landscape for the dispersion model

Data inputs (e.g. road and structure maps) for the dispersion model