Project Highlights

Blowing in the wind: Revolutionising urban wind and plume transport modelling

LAMP technology: Establishing a low-burden detection capability

Achieving impact at scale

Building better tools for radiation protection

Bringing hypersonics research and development to the fore

Delivering novel therapeutics to target bio-threat pathogens

DMTC is collaborating with researchers at the University of Sydney and DSTG to enhance atmospheric transport and dispersion modelling and simulation tools, that are used to predict the spread of airborne hazards in urban environments.

The collaborative project aims to deliver faster than real-time simulation tools to improve the modelling of how airborne chemical, biological and radiological (CBR) agents disperse in complex environments. Intended outcomes include the creation of a new paradigm for modelling, and enabling faster intervention against CBR releases.

Current models are reliant on the accuracy of existing models that include flow structures around characteristic building types, which can result in substantial error when applied to inconsistent geometries, representative of real-life urban structures. This project aims to improve accuracy in the predictive modelling tools that are currently used by Defence and the wider hazard-modelling community for forecasting urban dispersion with only minimal increases in simulation run-times.

This project aims to produce a novel modelling suite that will include new and accurate wind-field and dispersion models that are microscale, obstacleand building-aware, with improved resolution or performance in comparison to existing models. Two streams of work will produce a simulation tool that can predict agent dispersion at an extremely high