... capabilities trace a chemical plume to its source emitter Design/methodology/approach The source localization problem is analyzed using computational fluid dynamics simulations of airborne chemical plumes. The analysis is divided into two parts consisting of two large experiments each: the first part...

... of this paper is to place this task, called chemical plume tracing (CPT), in the context of fluid dynamics. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides a foundation for CPT based on the physics of fluid dynamics. The theoretical approach is founded upon source localization using the divergence theorem...