Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2000

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Why do we do “Industrial Mathematics”?....Pages 3-15
From Nucleation to Large Aggregates: the Growth of Filamentary....Pages 16-27
State of the Art Simulations of High Intense Particle Beams in Complicated Accelerator Structures....Pages 28-41
Effective Buckley-Leverett Equations by Homogenization....Pages 42-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
ICT and Effective Learning....Pages 113-117
An Advanced Tool for Authoring Multimedia Presentation....Pages 118-125
Evolutionary Music and Fitness Functions....Pages 126-139
The User “InterActs” with the Web: Integrating Active Study Tools in a Web-Based Instruction System....Pages 140-144
Applications of the Self-Organizing Networks in Document Categorization....Pages 145-154
On a Class of Large Size Planar Discrete Velocity Models for Gas Mixtures....Pages 157-163
Time-Depending Solutions to Spherical Harmonic Equations for Semiconductor Devices....Pages 164-168
Trading Volume in Models of Financial Derivatives....Pages 57-62
Two-Scale Asymptotics for Stochastic Volatility Models....Pages 63-66
Non-Probabilistic Jump Modelling for Financial Derivatives....Pages 67-71
Mass Gravity Flows Modelling....Pages 75-79
Recent Results in the Dynamics of Liquid Dispersions....Pages 80-84
Some New Results on the Flow of Waxy Crude Oils in a Loop....Pages 85-88
Image Restoration Problems for New-Generation Telescopes....Pages 91-95
Image Processing for Digital Still Cameras....Pages 96-104
Multiwavelets and Image Processing....Pages 105-109
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Advanced Transport Modelling in a Microelectronics Company: Status and Perspectives....Pages 239-245
Energy Transport Model for Silicon Semiconductors Derived from the Non Parabolic Band Hydrodynamical Model Based on the Maximum Entropy Principle....Pages 246-251
Neural Networks with Higher Level Architecture for Bipolar Device Modeling....Pages 252-257
Multirate Methods in Electrical Circuit Simulation....Pages 258-265
An Accelerated Poincaré-Map Method for Finding the PSS of Autonomous Oscillators....Pages 266-271
Iterative Solution of Linear Systems in Circuit Simulation....Pages 272-277
Travelling Waves in a Linearly Stable, Optimal-Velocity Model of Road Traffic....Pages 281-285
Discovering of Synchronized Flow as a New Traffic Phase and Related Problems for Traffic Flow Modeling....Pages 286-292
Gipps’ Model of Highway Traffic....Pages 293-297
A Comparison Between Bulk Solutions to the Boltzmann Equation and the Spherical Harmonic Model for Silicon Devices....Pages 169-173
An Extended Fluid-Dynamical Model Describing Electron Transport in Semiconductors....Pages 174-178
Monte Carlo Verification of an Extended Hydrodynamic Model Describing Charge Carrier Transport in Semiconductors....Pages 179-184
Modeling of Quantum Ballistic Transport in Electron Waveguide Devices....Pages 185-189
Carrier Transport in Silicon Dioxide using the Spherical-Harmonics Expansion of the BTE....Pages 190-194
Front-Fixing Modeling of Directional Solidification in Microgravity Conditions....Pages 197-203
Computational Model for Solidification Process of a Binary Alloy....Pages 204-209
Numerical Study for Solutal Convection in Liquid Alloy by Spectral and Finite Volume Approximations....Pages 210-217
Equipment and Process Modelling of Industrial Crystal Growth Using the Finite Volume Codes CrysVUn and STHAMAS....Pages 218-222
Optimal Design of Thermo-Electrical Flanges....Pages 225-229
Numerical Simulation of the Plunger Velocity....Pages 230-235
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Quantum Kinetic Equation Including Phonon Scattering....Pages 347-357
On a Variational Approach to the Time Evolution of the Mean Field Polaron....Pages 358-364
Wavefronts in Photoexcited Semiconductor Superlattices....Pages 365-371
Nonlinear Transport in Semiconductor Superlattices....Pages 372-385
Periodic Recycling and Motion of Wavefronts in a Model of the Gunn Effect with Saturating Current Characteristics....Pages 386-398
Central Schemes for Balance Laws....Pages 313-317
High Resolution Nonoscillatory Central Difference Schemes for the 2D Euler Equations via Artificial Compression....Pages 318-324
Numerical Solution of the Non Homogeneous Fokker-Planck-Landau Equation....Pages 325-331
Multiscale Hyperbolic Equations: Numerical Approximation and Applications....Pages 332-338
Similarity and Numerical Analysis of a Singular Moving Boundary Hyperbolic Problem....Pages 339-343
Numerical Simulation of a Stochastic System Modelling Nonisothermal Crystallization of Polymers....Pages 401-407
Modeling and Simulating the Crystallization of Polymers via a Many-Particle System....Pages 408-414
Flow-Induced Deformation of Drops....Pages 415-419
Expanding the Industrial Use of Linear Viscoelastic Material Functions....Pages 420-426
Postponing Polymer Processing Instabilities....Pages 427-432
Thermally Induced Flow Front Instabilities in Injection Moulding....Pages 433-438
Asymptotic Methods for Air-Flow Around Fibers....Pages 301-305
A Continuum Model for the Carding Machine....Pages 306-310
Estimation of Flood Risks in Urban Areas — The Curb as a Challenge for SWE....Pages 441-445
Towards a Two-dimensional Modelling Element in River Flow Simulation Systems....Pages 446-450
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
The Lattice Boltzmann Method for Two-Phase Flows and Applications to Filtration Processes....Pages 451-456
Mathematical Modelling — a Challenging Course....Pages 459-465
Solving Industrial Problems — Learning by Doing....Pages 466-471
Front Matter....Pages 473-473
Recent Developments and Open Problems in Composites Materials Manufacturing....Pages 475-487
Non-Isothermal Mathematical Model of Wood and Paper Drying....Pages 488-492
Tuning of Fuzzy Systems as an Ill-Posed Problem....Pages 493-498
Estimation Problems for a Crystallization Process Modelled by a Dynamic Germ-Grain Model....Pages 499-505
Some Mathematical Problems in Designing Subsoil Decontamination by Bioventing....Pages 506-511
Power Invariant Vector Compaction Based on Bit Clustering and Temporale Partitioning....Pages 512-525
Production Planning in a Multiproduct Batch Plant Under Uncertainty....Pages 526-531
Programming Numerical Sensitivity Analysis of Ordinary Differential Equations....Pages 532-536
Fast-Marching Approach for the Simulation of Directional Etching Processes....Pages 537-543
Coupled Frequencies of a Fluid in Closed Circular Cylindrical Rigid Tank with an Elastic Annular Plate in its Roof....Pages 544-548
Numerical Treatment of Optimal Control Problems with Differential-Algebraic Equations and Applications to Virtual Test-drives....Pages 549-553
Different Collision-Dominated Regimes for Chemically Reacting Gases....Pages 554-559
Optimal Shape Design and Optimal Sizing of Industrial Components....Pages 560-564
Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Three-Phase Flows in Pipelines....Pages 565-570
A Fast Nearest Neighbour Algorithm....Pages 571-576
Mathematical Modelling of LD-Steelmaking Process....Pages 577-583
Efficiency Analysis of Production Systems....Pages 584-591
Front Matter....Pages 473-473
A New Finite Difference Scheme for the Boltzmann — Poisson System on Semiconductor Devices....Pages 592-596
An Explicit Kinetic Model for Traffic Flow....Pages 597-601
A Nonlinear Nonviscous Hydrodynamical Model for Change Transport Derived from Kinetic Theory....Pages 602-607
A Penalty Scheme for Solving American Option Problems....Pages 608-612
Evaporative and Topographical Effects in Coating Flows....Pages 613-617
Homogenization for Viscoelastic Composites with Prescribed Interface Jumps in Displacements and Stresses....Pages 618-624
Inverse Modelling of Sedimentary Basins....Pages 625-629
Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Blood Flow Problems....Pages 630-635
A Numerical Method for Quantum Billiards with an Application to Waveguides....Pages 636-640
Inverse Design of an Axis-Symmetric Diffuser....Pages 641-645
Blended Lobatto Methods with Variable Numerical Damping in Multibody Dynamics....Pages 646-650
An Asymptotic Method for a Conjugate Heat Transfer Problem....Pages 651-656
Relations Between the Motion-Responses Caused by Fixed and Moving Loads Acting on Discretely Supported Strings and Beams....Pages 657-661
Back Matter....Pages 663-666