Urban Air Pollution Canyon: Street Vortex & Pollutant Trapping (2D)
2D street-canyon cross-section: a closed recirculating vortex driven by rooftop wind traps traffic pollutants against the upwind (leeward) wall while the downwind (windward) wall stays clean — adjust wind speed, building height, street width and emission rate to see the aspect-ratio flow regimes for yourself.
This 2D companion reduces the 3D street canyon to the cross-section that actually explains it: a closed-form single-cell vortex stream function whose closure strength depends on the building-height-to-street-width aspect ratio, tracer particles emitted at street level standing in for traffic, and a live heatmap plus wall-concentration strip chart that show pollutant physically piling up against the upwind building's leeward wall while the downwind windward wall stays comparatively clean — the real, well-documented street-canyon asymmetry, driven by adjustable wind speed, geometry and emission rate rather than decorative haze.
2D street-canyon cross-section with a closed-form single-cell vortex stream function, aspect-ratio-dependent recirculation closure, tracer-particle traffic emission with turbulent diffusion, and a live leeward-vs-windward wall concentration readout.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install