title: MERCURE
text: # MERCURE
  
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  MERCURE is an atmospheric dispersion modeling CFD code developed by Électricité de France (EDF) and distributed by ARIA Technologies, a French company.
  
  MERCURE is a version of the CFD software ESTET, developed by EDF's Laboratoire National d'Hydraulique. Thus, it has directly benefited from the improvements developed for ESTET. When requested, ARIA integrates MERCURE as a module into the ARIA RISK software for use in industrial risk assessments.
  
  ## Features of the model
  
  MERCURE is particularly well adapted to perform air pollution dispersion modelling on local or urban scales. Some of the models capabilities and features are:
  
  * Pollution source types: Point or line sources, continuous or intermittent.
  * Pollution plume types: Buoyant or dense gas plumes.
  * Deposition: The model is capable of simulating the deposition or decay of plume pollutants.
  
  ## Users of the model
  
  There are many organizations that have used MERCURE. To name a few:
  
  * Électricité de France (EDF)
  * Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d’Acoustique (LMFA) de l'École Centrale de Lyon, France
  * Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN), Fontenay, France
  * The Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), Bologna, Italy
  * Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
  