AUSTALISMUS

* The author of this homepage has been concerned with the validity of the reference solutions of the dispersion model for air pollutants AUSTAL2000 from 2002 onwards occasionally and from 2014 onwards. The authors of AUSTAL2000 include the plasma physicist Lutz Janicke, who received his doctorate in 1970, and the atomic optician Ulf Janicke, who also graduated in 1997. At the University of Konstanz, they receive basic and specialist training in mathematics and natural sciences. University graduates are able to familiarize themselves with related disciplines. Only a few graduates fail to do this.

* It is known that the development of dispersion models requires in-depth knowledge in the areas of momentum, heat and mass transfer as well as numerical fluid mechanics. But the fact that no graduate of these sciences was among the authors of the AUSTAL2000 had always been regarded as strange. Graduates like to take advantage of this opportunity to graduate. In this way, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), which commissioned the AUSTAL2000, could have had the results of this non-university research assessed academically. The Federal Environment Agency decides differently and does without university standards. This decision is remarkable, because one should have made sure that plasma physicists and atomic opticians have the necessary knowledge to develop propagation models. This procedure would have been common, because in other cases of the award of contracts it is a matter of course that the contractor has to prove professional competence, skills and abilities to the client. One could also have expected that the later authors of the AUSTAL2000 would have acquired the relevant knowledge on their own. The author of this homepage has to confirm that the efforts of the authors of the AUSTAL2000 have met with little success to this day. But if the UBA believed that the authors of the AUSTAL2000 had come to terms with the work Axenfeld et al. (1984) already qualified, but later one should have recognized that there was no reason for a leap of faith. On the contrary, the authors of AUSTAL, as plasma physicists and atomic opticians, have not yet succeeded in familiarizing themselves with the field of knowledge of the spread of air pollutants. Authors who are less competent in these areas explain to an even less competent client that they can model and calculate the spread of air pollutants. To this day, the specialist supervisor at the UBA who is responsible for AUSTAL2000 testifies to the pseudoscientific views of the authors of the AUSTAL2000 as being extremely scientific. This critical expression of opinion is justified, because the UBA pursues with broad expectations and great confidence the intention to harmonize all research in the field of air pollution control. Even if this project is not objectionable, one should recognize the state of the art rather than deny it.

* With the non-university UFOPLAN research, the UBA would like to convert the European air pollution control policy into national law. This includes standardized standards, methods and procedures with which the air quality can be assessed diagnostically and prognostically. The intention to develop a national dispersion model for this purpose, which sets standards for all authors of model developments, is to be welcomed, but one cannot afford to recommend algorithms that ignore all mathematics and mechanics. As the organizers of non-university research at the UBA, you bear all responsibility for this. But if the authors of the AUSTAL2000 in Axenfeld et al. (1984) can, contrary to all doctrines, claim without contradiction that “... a pillar standing on the earth's surface which contains the material suitable for deposition runs dry by deposition”, they confirm that they have not understood the physics and mathematics of the spread of air pollutants. With the conviction that deposition means loss and not storage, the authors of the AUSTAL2000 should be denied any ability to process or assess air pollution control tasks. After studying the papers Trukenmüller (2016) and Trukenmüller (2017), it cannot be ruled out that after 31 years at the UBA this undesirable development was recognized, but the time is already too far advanced to not be able to do without a loss of authority and competence could have made a castling. So one gets more and more entangled in contradictions and opposes all objections in an authoritarian manner.

* With the assertion that by deposition one understands loss and not storage, one wanted to harmonize the dispersion calculations for air pollutants in the Federal Republic from the beginning. As we can see today, however, the harmonization of all dispersion calculations has led to disastrous consequences for the design of non-university research. Because the UBA organizes and finances all research in this area, developments that oppose the AUSTAL2000 are not widely regarded.

* The focus of all publications of the UBA in the subsequent period is the description and dissemination of the fateful pseudoscientific views of the authors of the AUSTAL2000. The supposed importance of the theoretical foundations of the AUSTAL2000 for all further model developments is also propagated with considerable effort. This model should be able to determine the distribution of all possible air pollutants, such as dust, traffic emissions, industrial emissions, odors, heavy gases, aviation pollutants and radionuclides, in the atmosphere. The authors of the AUSTAL2000 do not leave out any pollutants for which their model should not be responsible. However, they ignore significant physical peculiarities, such as the interaction between atmosphere and heavy gas in the case of heavy gas propagation, the odor-specific diffusion in the case of the propagation of odors, the balancing of all decay products in the case of the distribution of radionuclides and the time-dependent emission and propagation behavior in the case of aviation pollutants Point sources. The physical basics are not described in any publications or program descriptions. Because you know that you are being sponsored by the state, the authors of the AUSTAL2000 do not care about scientific practices.

* Occasionally, concerns about the validity of the AUSTAL2000 become known early on, but the authors of the AUSTAL2000 and the UBA can successfully reject them. The situation will only change in 2014. It is recognized that all reference solutions of this model development are wrong. All objections to AUSTAL2000 are published extensively by the author of this website. The Federal Environment Agency vigorously contradicts this. At least after this point in time, the UBA does not count itself unintentionally among the authors of the AUSTAL2000 after 31 years. In particular, he is the author of the UBA publications Trukenmüller (2016) and Trukenmüller (2017). The suspicion that the weight of state authority is trying to silence critics has not yet been dispelled. The author of Trukenmüller (2016) and Trukenmüller (2017) is active in the UBA as a specialist companion of the AUSTAL2000 and as the person responsible for dispersion calculations, but he himself has considerable doubts about being a co-author of the AUSTAL2000. It is unbelievable that he could somehow have been involved in the development of algorithms for calculating the spread of air pollutants in the past and present. He takes on the task of defending the wrong views of the actual authors of the AUSTAL2000 with the weight of his authority as one who is also affected. Critics should understand that they not only scold the actual authors of the AUSTAL2000, but also have to reckon with UBA sanctions. It is not claimed, however, that the UBA has created a network to defend and hide the pseudo-scientific views of the authors of the AUSTAL2000. All past and present publications, research reports and development work serve to deny the state of science and defend the incorrect theories of the authors of the AUSTAL2000

* The events around AUSTAL2000, development, distribution, claim and importance can rightly be described as an Austalism. The following features prove that this is a deceptive Austalism:

Denial of the state of science

Decades of unhindered dissemination of pseudoscientific views

Abuse of state authority

Slander and disparagement