Status quo

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The release candidate of PALM-4U was released October 2018. Visit ​palm4u.org

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The release candidate includes the following new components:

• Multi Agent System
• RANS mode (TKE-epsilon closure)
• Indoor climate and energy demand module
• Emission module
• Aerosol physics/chemistry (SALSA)
• RANS-LES and RANS-RANS nesting
• Biometeorology output
• Virtual measurement module
• Graphical User Interface (GUI) for users from practice

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The beta version of PALM-4U was released December 2017.

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The beta version includes:

• Energy balance solvers for building and paved surfaces
• Radiative transfer within the urban canopy layer, including shadowing effects and multiple reflections between urban structures
• Wall material model for heat transfer between atmosphere and building
• Chemistry module for the transport and conversion of reactive species
• Model self-nesting that allows to increase either model domain size or to focus on near-surface processes
• Quasi-automatic external forcing by COSMO-DE model data
• A Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) type turbulence parameterization can be used instead of LES to reduce computational costs

MOSAIK timeline