A branch-and-bound algorithm for the location of facilities causing atmospheric pollution

In this paper the authors introduce a nonlinear model for the location of obnoxious facilties causing atmospheric pollution that minimizes the total pollutant burden on a system of urban sites. The effect of meterological conditions (mainly the winds) is appropriately integrated into the model. The proposed model performs a branch-and-bound like geometrical search to approximate optimal locations to any desired degree of accuracy.