PALM Tutorial

This tutorial teaches you about the design of PALM, and how to ...

• carry out runs with PALM for different meteorological scenarios.
• use specific parts of the model, such as the embedded particle model or topography.
• understand and analyze the PALM output data.
• add user-defined code to the model.
• debug errors.

At least once a year, we are hosting the 5-day seminar An Introduction to the Large-Eddy Simulation Model PALM, which covers all the above-mentioned topics.

The next PALM seminar will be held Aug 20-24 2018 at the Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. The official announcement will follow in April via the PALM mailing list, which users are automatically added to after registration.

If you cannot make it to the seminar, you could self-study the contents by following the time schedule of last years' PALM seminar (Fig. 1). The respective PDF presentations are available as attachments below (normal and handout version). At the time of the PALM seminar 2017, the PALM repository was roughly at revision number r2500. The PALM code is currently under heavy development (see lecture "Current developments"). To view the code changes since then, feel free to browse the repository, or have a look at the changelog.

Fig 1: Time schedule of the PALM seminar 2017, held Sept 25-29 at the Institute of Meteorology and Climatology (IMUK), Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH), Germany.

Fig 2: PALM seminar group 2017 at IMUK-LUH. Photographer: Notker Fechner (Real-size image download)

Lecture presentations

Lecture	Normal version	Handout version
Code parallelization	Parallelization.pdf	will be added soon
Code structure & features	Code_structure_and_features.pdf	will be added soon
Current developments	Current_developments.pdf	will be added soon
Data visualization	Data_visualization.pdf	will be added soon
Debugging	Debugging.pdf	will be added soon
Final remarks	Final_remarks.pdf	will be added soon
Fundamentals of LES	Fundamentals_of_LES.pdf	will be added soon
Grid nesting	Grid_nesting.pdf	will be added soon
Lagrangian particle model	Lagrangian_particle_model.pdf	will be added soon
Land surface model	Land_surface_model.pdf	will be added soon
Large-scale forcing & nudging	LSF_lecture.pdf	will be added soon
LES for beginners	LES_for_beginners.pdf	will be added soon
Non-cyclic boundary conditions	Noncyclic_boundaries.pdf	will be added soon
Numerics & boundary conditions	Numerics_and_bc.pdf	will be added soon
PALM overview	PALM_overview.pdf	will be added soon
PALM steering	PALM_steering.pdf	will be added soon
Radiation model	Radiation_model.pdf	will be added soon
Restart runs	Restart_runs.pdf	will be added soon
Seminar introduction	Seminar_Introduction.pdf	will be added soon
Topography	Topography.pdf	will be added soon
User-defined code	User-defined_code.pdf	will be added soon

Further documentation about other model components is available.

Exercise presentations

Exercise	Normal version	Handout version	Input files
E0: Installation	E0_Installation.pdf	will be added soon	---
E1: Convective boundary layer	E1_cbl.pdf	will be added soon	E1 setup
E2: Neutral boundary layer	E2_neutral.pdf	will be added soon	E2 setup
E3: Flow around building	E3_cube.pdf	will be added soon	E3 setup
E4: Land surface model	E4_lsm.pdf	will be added soon	E4 setup
E5: Lagrangian & Eulerian dispersion modeling	E5_dispersion.pdf	will be added soon	E5 setup

Further simulation examples are available.

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