Workshop 1 - First ABL Simulation

General goal: introduce the AeroSim solver and run a first case, end to end.

By the end of this workshop each participant will have an ABL simulation configured from scratch, submitted to run, and the first results downloaded and opened in ParaView.

The case is a neutral atmospheric boundary layer over terrain category II: an empty domain whose only job is to carry the profile from inlet to the region of interest. It is the case most wind engineering studies starts from, and the one later simulations are derived from.

Agenda

Block	Topic
1	Geometries - the plane and the roughness elements
2	Simulation - creating the case and attaching the geometries with their BCs
3	Mesh - domain limits, refinements and mesh generation
4	Solver numerics - boundary conditions, models and parameters
5	Data exports - debug, statistics and line profiles
6	Running the case - creating the run, logs and monitors
7	Results - downloading and visualizing the fields

Prerequisites

This session assumes you already have an account set up at solver.aerosim.io.

To run the case in block 6, that account also needs to be authorized to submit simulations. Please contact AeroSim support if it is not, before the session rather than during it.

For block 7, ParaView should already be installed on your machine.

• 1. Geometries
• 2. Simulation
• 3. Mesh
• 4. Solver Numerics
• 5. Data Exports
• 6. Running the Case
• 7. Results
• 8. Recap