Welcome to QES’s documentation!

Behnam Bozorgmehr , Jeremy A Gibbs , Fabien Margairaz , Lucas Ulmer , Eric R Pardyjak , Rob Stoll , Pete Willemsen

The Quick Environmental Simulation (QES) code is a low-computational-cost framework designed to compute high-resolution wind and concentration fields in complex atmospheric-boundary-layer environments.

The modules are the following:

• QES-Winds is the new wind model computing divergence-free steady-state 3D wind field in complex domain.

• QES-TURB is a stand-alone turbulence model that computes turbulence fields from the calculated wind field in QES-Winds.

• QES-Plume is a stand-alone Lagrangian dispersion model with the ability to calculate spatially and temporally varying scalar concentrations.

• QES-Fire is a fire-spread model.

• QES-Transport is a transport model (to be implemented)

Warning

QES requires a NVIDIA GPU with Compute Capability of 7.0 (or higher).

Note

• the latest version of the document corresponds to the private version of QES.

• if using the public version of QES, please select the corresponding release version in the bottom left corner (ex. v2.1.0).

Getting Started

• Introduction
  • QES-Winds
  • QES-Turb
  • QES-Plume
  • QES-Fire
  • Publications
  • Acknowledgements
• Installation
  • Required Packages
  • Cloning QES-Winds from GitHub
  • Building QES
  • Build Types
• Running QES
  • Running from the Command Line
  • slurm Template (for CUDA 11.4 build)
  • Testing QES

User Guide

• QES-Winds
  • Introduction
  • Parameter Files
  • QES-Winds Domain (simulationParameters)
  • Initial Wind Field (metParams)
  • Building Parameters (buildingsParams)
  • Vegetation Parameters (vegetationParams)
• QES-Turb
  • The model
  • The XML file
• QES-Plume
  • The model
  • The XML file

References

• Reference List