Articles | Volume 18, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-3331-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-3331-2025
Model description paper
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06 Jun 2025
Model description paper |  | 06 Jun 2025

Potential-based thermodynamics with consistent conservative cascade transport for implicit large eddy simulation: PTerodaC3TILES version 1.0

John Thuburn

Model code and software

PTerodaC3TILES version 1.0: Potential based Thermodynamics with Consistent Conservative Cascade Transport for Implicit Large Eddy Simulation John Thuburn https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13899066

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Short summary
A new computational fluid dynamics code for simulating the atmospheric boundary layer and convection is presented. Moist thermodynamics is formulated via thermodynamic potentials, avoiding inconsistencies that can be introduced with conventional approaches. Numerical methods typical of weather and climate models are used, with no explicit subgrid scheme. Results highlight some advantages (e.g. large time steps) and disadvantages (e.g. weak vertical fluxes near the surface) of this approach.
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