A communication library for the parallelization of air quality models on structured grids

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 3917-3930

  Miehe, Philipp ^a   Sandu, Adrian ^a   Carmichael, Gregory R ^b   Tang, Youhua ^b   Dǎescu, Dacian ^c  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality models; Parallel computing; Structured grids

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; DECOMPOSITION; OPTIMIZATION;

AIR QUALITY MODELS (AQM); STRUCTURED GRIDS;

LIBRARIES;

AIR QUALITY; COMMUNICATION; POLLUTION CONTROL;

AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DECOMPOSITION; LIBRARY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036706460     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00338-2     Document Type: Article

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