Particle trajectory model of atmospheric dispersion on a parallel processing system

Abstract A Lagrangian trajectory model of atmospheric dispersion using the Langevin equation is implemented on a parallel processing computer system, ANUPAM developed at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, India. In the eight-node system with MIMD architecture, a speed-up of 7.22 was achieved using appropriate load balancing between the host node and other nodes. The concentration distribution obtained using the model for two typical cases: (a) high wind shear, low wind speed stable conditions, and (b) low shear, high wind speed unstable conditions, are illustrated with SODAR data as input.