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Treatment of some mathematical models describing long-range transport of air pollutants on vector processors. (English) Zbl 0641.65094

The author discusses the discretation and numerical solution of a large system of partial differential equations modeling the long range transport of air pollutants over large geographical areas (e.g. all of Europe) and long time periods (at least one year). The commonly used discretation scheme results in a very large system of ordinary differential equations (about 10 5 equations for the three (space) dimensional problems) which makes simulation studies intractable on sequential computers. Thus, successful utilization of the algorithm has been previously accomplished only for the two (space) dimensional problem. The author discusses how to vectorize appropriate parts of the algorithm in order to obtain a code which is numerically tractable for even three-dimensional problems (on CRAY type machines).
Reviewer: J.M.Cushing

MSC:

65Z05 Applications to the sciences
65N22 Numerical solution of discretized equations for boundary value problems involving PDEs
35Q99 Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application
35G30 Boundary value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs
92Cxx Physiological, cellular and medical topics
65Y05 Parallel numerical computation
76Z10 Biopropulsion in water and in air
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