From a6004ceac0a33c5c96dca41244b91325921e5178 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Ferrand Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 11:27:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS file. (cherry picked from commit c9275018ed95e5e45ca723571f5a7af460cbffb5) --- NEWS.md | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index 11f3378d97..1db5c8a56f 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -221,6 +221,22 @@ Numerics and physical modeling: - Add an explicit treatment of the advection term in CDO face-based equations. +- Atmo: Major modification the scheme for Solar radiation done the PhD of + L. Asmar. + In a previous version of the 1D solar radiation scheme of Code_Saturne, the + effect of aerosols has been introduced by making the approximation that + aerosols are purely diffusive. The same approximation was taken for + water vapor absorption in the UV-visible band (O3 band) but with + different optical properties. + In this new version, the aerosols are taken into account as absorbing + and diffusive particles characterized by their optical properties: + aerosol optical depth, single scattering albedo and asymmetry factor. To + do that, the adding method for multiple scattering has been added in the + UV-Visible band. + Other improvements have been made for: the optical air mass, the + Rayleigh diffusion and the direct radiation estimation. In addition, + the absorption by minor gases has been introduced. + Architectural changes: - Move salome_cfd extensions (CFDSTUDY module) to a separate repository. @@ -350,6 +366,14 @@ Numerics and physical modelling: Rayleigh diffusion and the direct radiation estimation. In addition, the absorption by minor gases has been introduced. +- Atmospheric module: add 3D radiative transfer for solar wave (shortwaves): + direct and diffuse. + The 1D atmospheric model is solved before to get boundary conditions at + the top of the CFD domain. It is also used for the absorption + coefficients. + This work is part of M. Millez PhD, Y. Qu PhD and Y. Maanane internship. + Also rename verbose mode for Radiative transfer (iimlum -> verbosity). + - Remove "extrag" option for the pressure gradient, as its use was limited to orthogonal meshes and was long superceded by the `iphydr=1` option.