Source Identification of a Chemical Incident in an Urban Area

Abstract

This work deals aims to present a methodology for source identification of chemical incidents in urban areas. We propose an approximation of the problem within the framework of the optimal control theory and we provide an algorithm for its numerical resolution. Finally, we analyze the validity of the algorithm in several academic situations.

Keywords

• chemical incident
• source identification
• control problem
• mixed-integer nonlinear programming
• numerical simulation