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QES (QUIC EnvSim): fast GPU urban wind, turbulence and dispersion model

Simulation

Open-source successor to LANL's QUIC: a mass-conserving diagnostic wind solver on GPU (QES-Winds), a turbulence closure (QES-Turb) and Lagrangian dispersion (QES-Plume) for building-resolving runs much faster than real time.

Get the code

Source code (GitHub) DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7098279
Licence
GPL-3.0+ Copyleft open-source licence: use and change it freely, but share any distributed changes under the same licence.

How to cite

Pardyjak, E., Stoll, R., Willemsen, P., Margairaz, F., Gibbs, M., & Bozorgmehr, B. (2021). QES (QUIC EnvSim): fast GPU urban wind, turbulence and dispersion model [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7098279

Please also cite the publication below that describes it.

Details

Resource
Software & tools
Method
RANS
Geometry
Realistic neighbourhood, City scale
Topic
Dispersion & air quality
Quantities
Velocity, Concentration
Codes / models
QES
Year
2021
Creators
Eric Pardyjak; Rob Stoll; Pete Willemsen; Fabien Margairaz; Matthew Gibbs; Behnam Bozorgmehr
Institution
University of Utah; University of Minnesota Duluth

Linked publications

Papers that describe or use this resource.

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