Main LASER/F technical specifications
Designer and developer : P. P. Kastendeuch, Lecturer at the Strasbourg University (France) and researcher in climatology at ICUBE laboratory (Strasbourg, France). Its publications are accessible here.
Beginning of the LASER/F project: 2002
Programming language: Free Pascal Object
Exploitation system: Windows 10 (64 bits)
IDE: Lazarus
3D Graphics Library: GLScene
Recommended equipment: multicore PC, >= 8 GB RAM
Executable size: < 10 MB
Computation: the most time consuming procedures have been parallelized during simulation (use all of available cores and logical processors)
Graphic card: support of 3D display
Interface: available with or without graphic interface (can be run in online and offline mode)
Results: maps in 3D, linear graphics in 2D, spreadsheet, exportation of results as external files
Atmospheric forcing: forcing variables are provided in user specified *.csv text files, and in a specific format
Scene dimensions: typically 1000 m * 1000 m
Urban geometry: support LOD2 and LOD3. Information is given in user specified *.geo files (a specific LASER/F file format for geometry)
Simulation time-step: user defined (can be as large as a quarter of hour)
Simulation period: from several consecutive days to several months according to objectives, calculation time and scene dimensions
Atmosphere: implicit atmosphere (no CFD)
