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Acknowledgements

I am most indebted to Professors Roger F. Harrington and Geoffery C. Fox, my academic and research advisors, for their encouragement, fruitful suggestions, invaluable and friendly guidance, and financial support. Without these, the success of the present work would not have been possible.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Chung-Chi Cha, Gerald E. Mortensen, and Debra L. Wilkes of Syracuse Research Corporation for their support and various useful discussions.

I am grateful to Dr. Joseph R. Mautz for his day-to-day consultation, taking the time to read this dissertation and to offer his suggestions. I greatly appreciate the courses taught by Dr. Arlon T. Adams, Dr. Jay K. Lee, and Dr. Ercument Arvas.

I am very grateful to Dr. Kim Mills and Gang Cheng for their useful suggestions on parallel implementation. I specially thank Mr. Gang Cheng for providing the data obtained on the Intel, IBM SP-1, and the network cluster. I thank Gerald E. Mortensen and Dr. Kenneth A. Hawick for their reading of the manuscript of the dissertation and offering suggestions. I am thankful for Mr. Jim Lauer providing EMCC testing results.

I thank the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, and the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Facility at NASA Ames Research Center for providing extensive computer resources.

Finally, I would like to give my deepest thanks to my family. I am most grateful to my wife, Pingyan Zou, and my son, Kevin, for their patience and understanding of my frequent absence.


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