Evaluation of PALM

PALM is evaluated for flow around buildings and obstacles according to the guideline VDI 3783 Part 9.

Fig 1: Evaluation protocol download​

A complete description of the evaluation of PALM can be found here​.

Test cases

All test cases were calculated with revision 4113 (included vdi_internal_controls.f90)

Test case	Input files
all cases
a1-1	a1-1.zip​
a1-2	a1-2.zip​
a2	a2.zip​
a3-2	a3-2.zip​
a4-1	a4-1.zip​
a4-2	a4-2.zip​
a5-1	a5-1.zip​
a5-2	a5-2.zip​
b-1	b-1.zip​
b-2	b-2.zip​
b-3	b-3.zip​
b-4	b-4.zip​
b-5	b-5.zip​
b-6	b-6.zip​
b-7	b-7.zip​
b-8	b-8.zip​
b-9	b-9.zip​
b-10	b-10.zip​
b-11	b-11.zip​
b-12	b-12.zip​
c4	c4.zip​
c5-1	c5-1.zip​ topography_nc​
c5-2	c5-2.zip​

Utilities

Program for creating the building input data for the different test cases:
create_building.f90​

Program for creating input profiles of u and v for the different test cases:
initialprofile.zip​

Analysis routines

Test cases a1-1, a1-2, a2, a3-1, a3-2, c1: a1_a3.ncl​

Test cases a4-1, a4-2, c2: a4.zip​

Test cases a5, c3 a5_c3.zip​

Test cases b-1 till b-12: b1_b12.zip​

Test case c4: c4.2.zip​

Test case c5: c5.zip​