Exploiting massively parallel architectures for the solution of diffusion and propagation problems

Many problems in several fields like physics, chemistry, biology and engineering lack an analytical solution able to provide a satisfactory phenomena description. Then a numerical solution becomes the only viable alternative. The use of massively parallel architectures often allows one to obtain in an easy way a comprehensive picture of the behaviour of the solution. We present here a computational model applied to two different physical problems; our work demonstrates the effectiveness of the approach and its extensibility to many classes of problems in different fields.