Ebook: Computer Treatment of Large Air Pollution Models
Author: Zahari Zlatev (auth.)
- Tags: Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Environmental Management, Numeric Computing, Meteorology/Climatology, Physical Chemistry
- Series: Environmental Science and Technology Library 2
- Year: 1995
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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"Models are often the only way of interpreting measurements to in vestigate long-range transport, and this is the reason for the emphasis on them in many research programs". B. E. A. Fisher: "A review of the processes and models of long-range transport of air pollutants", Atmospheric Environment, 17(1983), p. 1865. Mathematical models are (potentially, at least) powerful means in the efforts to study transboundary transport of air pollutants, source-receptor relationships and efficient ways of reducing the air pollution to acceptable levels. A mathematical model is a complicated matter, the development of which is based on the use of (i) various mechanisms describing mathematically the physical and chemical properties of the studied phenomena, (ii) different mathematical tools (first and foremost, partial differenti al equations), (iii) various numerical methods, (iv) computers (especially, high-speed computers), (v) statistical approaches, (vi) fast and efficient visualization and animation techniques, (vii) fast methods for manipulation with huge sets of data (input data, intermediate data and output data).
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Air Pollution Problem....Pages 1-20
Mathematical Models for Studying the Long-Range Transport of Air Pollutants....Pages 21-67
Numerical Treatment of Large Air Pollution Models....Pages 69-109
Testing the Reliability of the Numerical Algorithms....Pages 111-140
Need for Efficient Algorithms....Pages 141-174
Computations on High-Speed Computers....Pages 175-191
Running Air Pollution Models on Vector Machines....Pages 193-223
Running Models on Parallel Machines with Shared Memory....Pages 225-249
Running Models on Massively Parallel Computers....Pages 251-264
Numerical Experiments with the Danish Eulerian Model....Pages 265-305
Back Matter....Pages 307-359
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Air Pollution Problem....Pages 1-20
Mathematical Models for Studying the Long-Range Transport of Air Pollutants....Pages 21-67
Numerical Treatment of Large Air Pollution Models....Pages 69-109
Testing the Reliability of the Numerical Algorithms....Pages 111-140
Need for Efficient Algorithms....Pages 141-174
Computations on High-Speed Computers....Pages 175-191
Running Air Pollution Models on Vector Machines....Pages 193-223
Running Models on Parallel Machines with Shared Memory....Pages 225-249
Running Models on Massively Parallel Computers....Pages 251-264
Numerical Experiments with the Danish Eulerian Model....Pages 265-305
Back Matter....Pages 307-359
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