PALM simulation examples

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: This page will be filled with some new examples! Old examples need to be adjusted to PALM 5.0!

Beginners

1. Convection between plates

Simulation of a convective boundary layer between two uniformly heated/cooled plates with zero mean flow (details​).

2. Heterogeneously heated convective boundary layer (with user code)

Simulation of a convective boundary layer with a heterogeneously heated surface, defined in the user code (details​).

3. Restart runs

Simulation of manual or automatic job chains, i.e. starting a simulation based on the final meteorological state of a previous simulation (details​).

4. Cumulus cloud with bulk cloud physics

Simulation of a marine, cumulus-topped, trade-wind-region boundary layer (details​).

Advanced

1. LITFASS 2003

This example shows the development of the convective boundary layer in the presence of irregular distributed surface heterogeneities in the LITFASS region on two days (May 30 and June 13, 2003) (details).

2. DYCOMS

With this example stratocumulus-topped boundary layers can be studied (details).

3. BOMEX

With this example trade wind cumulus convection under steady-state conditions can be studied (details).