Parallelization of Advection-Diffusion-Chemistry Modules

  • Authors:
  • István Faragó;Krassimir Georgiev;Zahari Zlatev

  • Affiliations:
  • Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117;Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria 1113;National Environmental Research Institute, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark DK-4000

  • Venue:
  • Large-Scale Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

An advection-diffusion-chemistry module of a large-scale air pollution model is split into two parts: (a) advection-diffusion part and (b) chemistry part. A simple sequential splitting is used. This means that at each time-step first the advection-diffusion part is treated and after that the chemical part is handled. A discretization technique based on central differences followed by Crank-Nicolson time-stepping is used in the advection-diffusion part. The non-linear chemical reactions are treated by the robust Backward Euler Formula. The performance of the combined numerical method (splitting procedure + numerical algorithms used in the advection-diffusion part and in the chemical part) is studied in connection with six test-problems. We are interested in both the accuracy of the results and the efficiency of the parallel computations.