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U-DaLES
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- Air quality
- It supports passive or reactive scalars from point, line, or volume sources and includes a basic NOx–O3 chemistry scheme.udales.github.io · read 7 Oct 2026
- Assessment tools
- Noudales.github.io · read 23 Sep 2026
- Building and terrain
- It represents buildings and terrain with a triangulated-surface immersed boundary method that conserves mass, momentum, and scalars.udales.github.io · read 7 Oct 2026
- Data export
- Yesudales.github.io · read 23 Sep 2026
- Data format
- Simulation output is stored in NetCDF files, and parallel output must be merged for convenient visualization and processing.udales.github.io · read 7 Oct 2026
- Delivery mode
- desktopudales.github.io · read 23 Sep 2026
- Dependencies
- The solver prerequisites include CMake, NetCDF-Fortran, a GNU, Intel, or Cray Fortran compiler, MPICH or Open-MPI, and FFTW.udales.github.io · read 7 Oct 2026
- Input and output tools
- The documented workflow uses MATLAB preprocessing and stores simulation output in netCDF files that can be processed with Python, MATLAB, or other languages.udales.github.io · read 7 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The model documentation describes uses including urban airflow, heat transfer, pollutant dispersion, and urban air-quality studies at building-resolving resolution.udales.github.io · read 7 Oct 2026
- Lesson library
- Noudales.github.io · read 23 Sep 2026
- License
- The public source repository states that uDALES files are licensed under the GNU General Public License.github.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Offline access
- Yesudales.github.io · read 23 Sep 2026
- Parallel computing
- The model uses MPI with a 2-D pencil domain decomposition and is described as scaling to large domains and core counts on HPC systems.udales.github.io · read 7 Oct 2026
- Pollutants
- It supports passive or reactive scalars from point, line, or volume sources and includes a basic NOx–O3 chemistry scheme.udales.github.io · read 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- uDALES is an open-source large-eddy simulation model for urban microclimate, airflow, heat, moisture, and pollutant transport.udales.github.io · read 7 Oct 2026
- Python package
- The Python package provides preprocessing, geometry handling, simulation-output analysis, visualization, and statistics modules.udales.github.io · read 7 Oct 2026
- Python package status
- The Python package is under active testing, its interfaces may change, and it is intended to replace the MATLAB toolchain, which the page says will be retired from uDALES v3.0 onwards.udales.github.io · read 7 Oct 2026
- Python tools
- The Python package provides preprocessing, NetCDF output analysis, STL geometry handling, 3-D visualization, and statistics modules.udales.github.io · read 7 Oct 2026
