PALM Tutorial

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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 Sept XX-XX 2018 at 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 respository was roughly at 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.

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

Lecture presentations

Lecture	normal version	handout version
Seminar introduction	attachment​	attachment​
Fundamentals of LES	attachment​	attachment​
LES for beginners	attachment​	attachment​
PALM overview	attachment​	attachment​
PALM steering	attachment​	attachment​
Data visualization	attachment​	attachment​
Numerics & boundary conditions	attachment​	attachment​
Code parallelization	attachment​	attachment​
Code structure & features	attachment​	attachment​
Large-scale forcing & nudging	attachment​	attachment​
Topography	attachment​	attachment​
Non-cyclic boundary conditions	attachment​	attachment​
Restart runs	attachment​	attachment​
User-defined code	attachment​	attachment​
Debugging	attachment​	attachment​
Land surface model	attachment​	attachment​
Radiation model	attachment​	attachment​
Current developments	attachment​	attachment​
Grid nesting	attachment​	attachment​
Lagrangian particle model	attachment​	attachment​
Final remarks	attachment​	attachment​

Exercise presentations

Exercise	normal version	handout version
E0: Installation	attachment​	attachment​
E1: Convective boundary layer	attachment​	attachment​
E2: Neutral boundary layer	attachment​	attachment​
E3: Flow around building	attachment​	attachment​
E4: Land surface model	attachment​	attachment​
E5: Lagrangian & Eulerian dispersion modeling	attachment​	attachment​

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