Multi-Core Desktop Parallelized Water Quality Model Applied to Xiangxi River, China

Abstract:

The Yangtze River and its tributaries located in Three Gorges Project (TGP) reservoir was influenced by the operation of TGP reservoir, and the water quality problems were becoming serious these years. Mass transportation in the tributaries was interacted with the hydrodynamic field. Then, a parallelized three dimensional unstructured mesh water quality model was applied to Xiangxi River - one of tributaries of Yangtze River - to simulate the changing processes of flowing and nutrients including TP and TN. The results show that the parallelization model can enhance the simulation efficiency, especially when the computational scale is large. The parallelized model was executed in Windows operation system could make sufficient use of the resources of low-end multi-core personal computer. The parallelized model could provide a new tool for river water quality research and the information for management of TGP reservoir.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 444-445)
• Pages: 941-945
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.444-445.941
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Jian Li, Zhong Wu Jin, Shi Ming Yao
• Keywords: Multi-Core Computer, Parallelization, Water Quality Mode, Xiangxi River

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