Modeling of dispersion of air pollutants in the atmosphere is one of the most important and
challenging scientific problems. There are several natural and anthropogenic events where …

The field of atmospheric dispersion modeling has evolved together with nuclear risk
assessment and emergency response systems. Atmospheric concentration and deposition …

A Modern Graphics Processing unit (GPU) is able to perform massively parallel scientific
computations at low cost. We extend our implementation of the checkerboard algorithm for …

The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive theoretical review with regard to
history, existing approaches, recent developments, major research, associated …

This study introduces a novel framework of metocean prediction and ship performance
models that integrate multiple layers of modeling to evaluate the environmental impact of …

The Chernobyl accident and unfortunately the recent accident at the Fukushima 1 Nuclear
Power Plant are the most serious accidents in the history of the nuclear technology and …

Satellite-observed radiance is a nonlinear functional of surface properties and atmospheric
temperature and absorbing gas profiles as described by the radiative transfer equation …

The demand for fast solution of nonlinear optimization problems, coupled with the
emergence of new concurrent computing architectures, drives the need for parallel …

Simulating particle coagulation using Monte Carlo methods is in general a challenging
computational task due to its numerical complexity and the computing cost. Currently, the …

The increasingly available graphics processing units (GPU) hardware and the emerging
general purpose computing on GPU (GPGPU) technologies provide an attractive solution to …