METHODS IN COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

BERNI ALDER, SIDNEY FERNBACH, MANUEL ROTENBERG

Penerbit : Academic Press

Tahun : 1977

"The necessity for numerical computations to describe the behavior of the earth’s atmosphere had been recognized well before Richardson’s (1922) pioneering calculation. The construction in the mid-1940s of an electronic computer was initiated by von Neumann primarily to facilitate the computational task of numerical weather forecasting. Ever since, general circulation models of the atmosphere have absorbed the existing computational capabilities and spearheaded the drive for faster and larger computers in order to achieve still higher resolution and to allow for still more complex physical processes. Thus, the general circulation models illustrate well both the potential and the limitations of present-day computing. As such, their presentation should be of general interest to those who attempt calculations with other three-dimensional models of complex physical systems."

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