Modelling the Effects of Radioactive Effluent on Thunnus orientalis and Oncorhynchus gorbuscha

• Main Authors: Zhixiong Chen, Yi Ding, Rusty Laracuenti, Bernard Lipat
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Fukushima; Nicholson; Pacific; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon
• Online Access: http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/JAM/2013/672171.pdf; http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/JAM/2013/672171.xml

The contamination of the Pacific Ocean by the radioactive pollutants released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has raised legitimate concerns over the viability of marine wildlife. We develop a modified Crank-Nicholson method to approximate a solution to the diffusion-advection-decay e...