Numerical Methods and Applications: 8th International Conference, NMA 2014, Borovets, Bulgaria, August 20-24, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Note on Local Refinement for Direction Splitting Methods....Pages 3-12
On Positivity Preservation in Some Finite Element Methods for the Heat Equation....Pages 13-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Optimized Particle Regeneration Scheme for the Wigner Monte Carlo Method....Pages 27-33
Sensitivity Analysis of Design Parameters for Silicon Diodes....Pages 34-43
Balancing of Systematic and Stochastic Errors in Monte Carlo Algorithms for Integral Equations....Pages 44-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Slot Machines RTP Optimization with Genetic Algorithms....Pages 55-61
Hierarchical Topology in Parallel Differential Evolution....Pages 62-69
On Meme Self-Adaptation in Spatially-Structured Multimemetic Algorithms....Pages 70-77
An Ant Algorithm for the Partition Graph Coloring Problem....Pages 78-84
Multi-exchange Neighborhoods for the Capacitated Ring Tree Problem....Pages 85-94
Hebbian Versus Gradient Training of ESN Actors in Closed-Loop ACD....Pages 95-102
Free Search in Multidimensional Space II....Pages 103-111
A Semi-numerical Approach to Radiation Boundary Conditions....Pages 112-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Spectral Analysis of Geometric Multigrid Methods for Isogeometric Analysis....Pages 123-129
Numerical Homogenization of Epoxy-Clay Composite Materials....Pages 130-137
Isogeometric Analysis for Nonlinear Dynamics of Timoshenko Beams....Pages 138-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Deterministic Solution of the Discrete Wigner Equation....Pages 149-156
Explicit-Implicit Splitting Schemes for Parabolic Equations and Systems....Pages 157-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Solving Two-Point Boundary Value Problems for Integro-Differential Equations Using the Simple Shooting-Projection Method....Pages 169-177
HPC Simulations of the Fine Particulate Matter Climate of Bulgaria....Pages 178-186
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Tall RC Buildings Environmentally Degradated and Strengthened by Cables Under Multiple Earthquakes: A Numerical Approach....Pages 187-195
Multi-scale Computational Framework for Evaluating of the Performance of Molecular Based Flash Cells....Pages 196-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Parameter Identification of a Rate Dependent Constitutive Model for Rock Salt....Pages 207-216
Constitutive Parameter Adjustment for Mechanized Tunneling with Reference to Sub-system Effects....Pages 217-225
Modeling of Textiles as Nets of One-Dimensional Hyperelastic Strings with Friction Controlled by Capstan Equation....Pages 226-233
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Numerical Simulation of Drop Coalescence in the Presence of Inter-Phase Mass Transfer....Pages 237-245
Wavelet Compression of Spline Coefficients....Pages 246-253
Target Localization by UWB Signals....Pages 254-261
Performance of a Wavelet Shrinking Method....Pages 262-270
Two-Grid Decoupled Method for a Black-Scholes Increased Market Volatility Model....Pages 271-278
The Effect of a Postprocessing Procedure to Upper Bounds of the Eigenvalues....Pages 279-286
On a Type of Nonconforming Morley Rectangular Finite Element....Pages 287-294
A Numerical Study of the Upper Bound of the Throughput of a Crossbar Switch Utilizing MiMa-Algorithm....Pages 295-303
Extremal Scattered Data Interpolation in $$\mathbb {R}^3$$ Using Triangular Bézier Surfaces....Pages 304-311
Back Matter....Pages 313-313