QES (QUIC EnvSim): fast GPU urban wind, turbulence and dispersion model

Simulation

Open-source successor to LANL's QUIC: a mass-conserving diagnostic wind solver on GPU (QES-Winds), a turbulence closure (QES-Turb) and Lagrangian dispersion (QES-Plume) for building-resolving runs much faster than real time.

Source code (GitHub) ↗ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7098279

Resource: Software & tools
Method: RANS
Geometry: Realistic neighbourhood, City scale
Topic: Dispersion & air quality
Quantities: Velocity, Concentration
Codes / models: QES
Year: 2021
Licence: GPL-3.0+
Creators: Eric Pardyjak; Rob Stoll; Pete Willemsen; Fabien Margairaz; Matthew Gibbs; Behnam Bozorgmehr
Institution: University of Utah; University of Minnesota Duluth

Linked publications

Papers that describe or use this resource. If you use it, cite this paper and the dataset DOI.

Utilizing dynamic parallelism in CUDA to accelerate a 3D red-black successive over relaxation wind-field solver (2021)

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