QUIC Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling System

What is QUIC?

The Quick Urban & Industrial Complex (QUIC) Dispersion Modeling System is a fast response urban dispersion model that runs on a laptop.  QUIC is comprised of a 3D wind field model called QUIC-URB, a transport and dispersion model called QUIC-PLUME, a pressure solver, QUIC-PRESSURE, and graphical user interface called QUIC-GUI. Chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) agent dispersion can be computed on building to neighborhood scales in tens of seconds to tens of minutes.  QUIC will never give perfect answers, but it will account for the effects of buildings in an approximate way and provide more realism than non-building aware dispersion models.

QUIC Capabilities

• Radiological dispersal devices (RDD's) with buoyant rise
• Dense gas chemical agent dispersion with topographical effects
• Multi-particle size biological agent dispersion
• Bio slurry (evaporating droplet) dispersion
• 2-phase (droplet/vapor mixture) dispersion.
• Line, area, volume, and moving point sources
• Building infiltration and exfiltration
• Deposition on building surfaces
• Nested grids
• Meteorological data assimilation
• Vegetative canopies
• Pressure distribution on buildings
• 2D and 3D graphics visualization

Documents (pdf)

• QUIC Factsheet
• QUIC-URB Users Guide
• QUIC-PLUME Theory Guide
• QUIC v4.5 Start Guide
• QUIC Overview Poster
• QUIC Dense Gas Poster
• QUIC Sensor Siting Poster
• QUIC RDD Poster

Related Links

• Urban Dispersion Team
• LANL Group D-3
• Dr. Pardyjak's Home Page
• Dr. Klein's Home Page