Numerical methods

QES-Plume v1.0: a Lagrangian dispersion model
Low-cost simulations providing accurate predictions of transport of airborne material in urban areas, vegetative canopies, and complex …
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QES-Fire: a dynamically coupled fast-response wildfire model
A microscale wildfire model, QES-Fire, that dynamically couples the fire front to microscale winds was developed using a simplified …
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Utilizing dynamic parallelism in CUDA to accelerate a 3D red-black successive over relaxation wind-field solver
QES-Winds is a fast-response wind modeling platform for simulating high-resolution mean wind fields for optimization and prediction. …
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Large-Eddy Simulation of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Over the last 50 years the large-eddy simulation (LES) technique has developed into one of the most prominent numerical tools used to …
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MicroHH 1.0: a computational fluid dynamics code for direct numerical simulation and large-eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layer flows
This paper describes MicroHH 1.0, a new and open-source (www.microhh.org) computational fluid dynamics code for the simulation of …
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An Analytical Verification Test for Numerically Simulated Convective Flow Above a Thermally Heterogeneous Surface
An analytical solution of the Boussinesq equations for the motion of a viscous stably stratified fluid driven by a surface thermal …
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Revisiting Surface Heat-Flux and Temperature Boundary Conditions in Models of Stably Stratified Boundary-Layer Flows
Two formulations of the surface thermal boundary condition commonly employed in numerical modelling of atmospheric stably stratified …
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