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PaCT 1999: Parallel Computing Technologies pp 383–394Cite as

A Parallel Model Based on Cellular Automata for the Simulation of Pesticide Percolation in the Soil*

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We present a parallel model based on Cellular Automata for the simulation of reaction-diffusion processes, that has been applied to the percolation of pesticides in the soil. The main contribution of our approach consists of a model where chemical reactions and the move- ment of fluid particles in a porous medium can be explicitly described and simulated. The model has been used to reproduce the process that causes pesticides, contained in the soil after their application to crops, to be released into water flowing through the soil and to be carried to the groundwater layer, polluting it. The model has been successfully im- plemented on Cray T3E and SGI Origin 2000 parallel computers.

This work was part of the TTN/CAPP project, supported by European Commission DG3.

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  1. Dept. of Informatics, Systemics and Communication, University of Milan—Bicocca, Milan

    Stefania Bandini & Giancarlo Mauri

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Milan, Milan

    Giulio Pavesi

  3. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Turin, Turin

    Carla Simone

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  1. Stefania Bandini
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  1. Computing Center, 6 Lavrentiev Avenue, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    Victor Malyshkin

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Bandini, S., Mauri, G., Pavesi, G., Simone, C. (1999). A Parallel Model Based on Cellular Automata for the Simulation of Pesticide Percolation in the Soil* . In: Malyshkin, V. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1662. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48387-X_40

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