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IEM
IEM-Street Scale Module Framework
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IEM and its Street-Scale Modules

Muthu Ramalingam

ENV Modelling, Fluid Dynamics

June 28, 2017

Muthu Ramalingam IEM and its Street-Scale Modules

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Overview

1 Introduction

2 IEM

3 IEM-Street Scale Module Framework

4 s-VUCM

5 SoilHEAT

6 Development so far

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Scales of Atmospheric Modelling

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Scales of Atmospheric Modelling

5 min:
Explain the figure
Meso-scale
Street-scale
Surface flux model
What is a street canyon?
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Atmospheric interchange

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Atmospheric interchange

5 min:
Explain the figure
Waht kind of data is required?
Where to get data from?
What is put in ?
What is put out?
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IEM - workflow essentials

Geometry pre-processor(3DS multiple STL)
STL files grouped according to material properties
Mesh generated from STL files for various solvers
Configure mesh files
Convert to VTK or SHP file for user to view geometry and
mesh
The API serves as a unifying interface and the protocol
invariant
Development of the frontend, mocking the APIs during testing
Development of the backend as and when scientists have
updates in their sovlers, thus decoupling the frontend and the
backend development processes.
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 IEM and its Street-Scale Modules IEM - workflow essentials

2017-06-28 IEM Geometry pre-processor(3DS multiple STL)

STL files grouped according to material properties
Mesh generated from STL files for various solvers
Configure mesh files
Convert to VTK or SHP file for user to view geometry and
mesh

IEM - workflow essentials The API serves as a unifying interface and the protocol
invariant
Development of the frontend, mocking the APIs during testing
Development of the backend as and when scientists have
updates in their sovlers, thus decoupling the frontend and the
backend development processes.

5 min:
Explain the files
STL files contain what?
Why VTK?
Why SHP?
RESTful API means what?
Mock-up in the sense?
e2e
Platform used
Programming languages used
node-webkit
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IEM-Workflow-schematic

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IEM-Workflow-schematic

5 min:
Expliain the figure
OpenFOAM solver and BCs
Solar solver and BCs
Acoustics solvers and BCs
File types
GIS requirements
Not met with yet
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IEM-SW systems architecture

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IEM-SW systems architecture

2 min: Expliain the figure

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IEM-SDLC

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IEM-SDLC

2 min: Expliain the figure

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IEM-sample frontend

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IEM-sample frontend

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Subject to change - how?
Each button is a component - reusable, unlike HTML.
Single page app fit for mobile phone, tablet and other touch devices
Any number of list boxes and combo boxes can be added swiftly
About the 3D canvass on the right side.
built with WebGL protocol of node.js
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IEM-Implementation...

Git protocol for source control

JIRA deployed to create and track tasks
Native commands in the flow categorized as: CONFIGURE,
MESH, SOLVE
An interface needed to receive STL files
An interface needed to retrieve results in the form of
VTK/SHP files.
Backend web services are created using Node.js, a
Javascript-based server development framework.
Recent modifications in the code base include Typescript and
Angular 2 components due to the cross-compatibility issues.

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2017-06-28 IEM Git protocol for source control

JIRA deployed to create and track tasks
Native commands in the flow categorized as: CONFIGURE,
MESH, SOLVE
An interface needed to receive STL files

IEM-Implementation... An interface needed to retrieve results in the form of

VTK/SHP files.
Backend web services are created using Node.js, a
Javascript-based server development framework.
Recent modifications in the code base include Typescript and
Angular 2 components due to the cross-compatibility issues.

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Version control - Gitlab - code pull and push?
JIRA kanban - how is it used?
Only three native functions of the GUI as post-processing is
delegated to ParaView
POST function of HTML5 used to drag drop and upload files to the
server
GET functino of HTML5 used to download file
node.js vs javascript?
Why typescript - syntactic sugar and OOP
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IEM-Implementation...
The front-end is a Single Page Application (SPA). It is developed
using AngularJS.
Drag and drop STL files functionality
Set settings exposed by the APIs
Enable/Disable coupling between two solvers
Check console output while executing solvers
Choose to download VTK when solver is done
In addition, there are some elements to be implemented.
Choose to download SHP file when solver is done
Resume console output
Multi-user sessions
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2017-06-28 IEM The front-end is a Single Page Application (SPA). It is developed

using AngularJS.
Drag and drop STL files functionality
Set settings exposed by the APIs
Enable/Disable coupling between two solvers
Check console output while executing solvers

IEM-Implementation... Choose to download VTK when solver is done

In addition, there are some elements to be implemented.
Choose to download SHP file when solver is done
Resume console output
Multi-user sessions

5 min:
Version control - Gitlab - code pull and push?
JIRA kanban - how is it used?
Only three native functions of the GUI as post-processing is
delegated to ParaView
POST function of HTML5 used to drag drop and upload files to the
server
GET functino of HTML5 used to download file
node.js vs javascript?
Why typescript - syntactic sugar and OOP
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IEM-API

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IEM-API

2 min:
Explain folder structure
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IEM-API

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IEM-API

2 min: Explain folder structure

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IEM-Street Scale Module

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IEM-Street Scale Module

5 min:
Version control - Gitlab - code pull and push?
JIRA kanban - how is it used?
Only three native functions of the GUI as post-processing is
delegated to ParaView
POST function of HTML5 used to drag drop and upload files to the
server
GET functino of HTML5 used to download file
node.js vs javascript?
Why typescript - syntactic sugar and OOP
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Street budget

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Street budget

5 min:
Explain figure and each component individually
READ?
MCM?
MCM-READ put together?
SolarPy pros
s-VUCM is based on TEB
SoilHeat is based on FASST
FastVF why?- file conversion STL to VS3
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Variables

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Variables

2 min: Variables what is pro? diag?

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Temperature equations

Figure: Equations

Figure: Solids temperature

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Temperature equations Figure: Equations

Figure: Solids temperature

2 min:
Governing equations with symbols explained

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Hourly average of temperatures

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Hourly average of temperatures

Figure: Typical Results

2 min:
Pretext of figure
Why 300+ during mid-year
Why building temperature almost always constant
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SoilHEAT-Temperature-governing equations

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SoilHEAT-Temperature-governing equations

2 min:
explain equation (other equations for water transport and matrix
potential not shown)
explain figure
explain BC
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SoilHEAT

Figure: Ground surface temperature varying with albedo

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Development so far
The whole code base containing configured MCM-READ,
SolarPy, s-VUCM, SoilHEAT, FastVF was ported to the
NetBeans IDE.
A CMake compiler configuration on the common framework
was implemented.
A CSV <=> JSON conversion library was written in
FORTRAN.
Now all the codes can accept and output JSON format files
required for the web interface.
A vtk to JSON conversion library was re-factored to C++.
GUI from the components of main IEM is under development.
A 3d.js-based plotting facility is being developed for the web
interface.
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 IEM and its Street-Scale Modules Development so far

2017-06-28 Development so far The whole code base containing configured MCM-READ,
SolarPy, s-VUCM, SoilHEAT, FastVF was ported to the
NetBeans IDE.
A CMake compiler configuration on the common framework
was implemented.
A CSV <=> JSON conversion library was written in
FORTRAN.

Development so far Now all the codes can accept and output JSON format files
required for the web interface.
A vtk to JSON conversion library was re-factored to C++.
GUI from the components of main IEM is under development.
A 3d.js-based plotting facility is being developed for the web
interface.

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