Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2006

Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
On the Mean Geometric Densities of Random Closed Sets, and Their Estimation: Application to the Estimation of the Mean Density of Inhomogeneous Fibre Processes....Pages 3-34
Synthesis of Micro and Nanoparticles from Coaxial Electrified Jets....Pages 35-47
Numerical Simulation of Induction Furnaces for Silicon Purification....Pages 48-65
Growth and Pattern Formation for Thin Films....Pages 66-72
On Waves in Fluids: Some Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Aspects....Pages 73-105
Quantum Diffusion Models Derived from the Entropy Principle....Pages 106-122
Statistical Aspects of Size Functions for the Description of Random Shapes: Applications to Problems of Lithography in Microelectronics....Pages 123-134
Minisymposium “Flow Control in Aircraftsȝ....Pages 137-138
Using Non-Normality for Passive Laminar Flow Control....Pages 139-145
On the Catalytic Effect of Resonant Interactions in Boundary Layer Transition....Pages 146-156
Stabilization of Tollmien—Schlichting Waves by Mode Interaction....Pages 157-168
Acoustic Streaming and Lower-than-Laminar Drag in Controlled Channel Flow....Pages 169-177
Recent Progress in the Use of Compliant Walls for Laminar Flow Control....Pages 178-187
Minisymposium “Global Flow Instability”....Pages 188-190
Helical Instability and Breakdown of a Batchelor Trailing Vortex....Pages 191-195
A Finite-Element Alternative for BiGlobal Linear Instability Analysis....Pages 196-200
Numerical Considerations in Spectral Multidomain Methods for BiGlobal Instability Analysis of Open Cavity Configurations....Pages 201-206
Minisymposium “Analysis of Dynamical Problems in Turbomachinery”....Pages 207-207
Modal Identification of Mistuned Bladed Discs....Pages 208-213
Aeroelastic Instability of Low-Pressure Rotor Blades....Pages 214-219
Recent Advances in Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Vibrations of Complex Structures with Friction Contact Interfaces....Pages 220-224
Minisymposium “Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws”....Pages 225-225
Central Runge—Kutta Schemes for Stiff Balance Laws....Pages 226-230
Flow Calculations using Shock Capturing Schemes Based on Power Limiters....Pages 231-235
A Comparison Between Relaxation and Kurganov—Tadmor Schemes....Pages 236-240
Minisymposium “Multibody Dynamics”....Pages 241-241
The Reverse Method of Lines in Flexible Multibody Dynamics....Pages 242-246
Fast Simulation of Quasistatic Rod Deformations for VR Applications....Pages 247-253
Simulation and Optimization of Suspension Testing Systems....Pages 254-258
Minisymposium “Some Topics in Astrodynamics and Space Geodesy”....Pages 259-259
Optimal Station Keeping for Geostationary Satellites with Electric Propulsion Systems Under Eclipse Constraints....Pages 260-264
International Reference Systems for Astrodynamics and Space Geodesy....Pages 265-269
Post-Newtonian Covariant Measurement Formulations in Space Geodesy....Pages 270-275
Minisymposium “Clean Coal Conversion Technologies”....Pages 276-276
Mathematical Modelling of Coal Particles Combustion in Pulverised Coal Furnaces....Pages 277-283
Transport of Particles and Vapors in Flue Gases and Deposition on Cold Surfaces....Pages 284-289
A Comprehensive Mathematical Model of Flue-gas Desulfurization....Pages 290-295
Determination of the Kinetic Parameters of a Pulverized Fuel from Drop Tube Experiments....Pages 296-300
Minisymposium “Mathematical Problems in Oil Industry”....Pages 301-301
An Asphaltene Precipitation Model Using a Lattice Approach....Pages 302-306
Formation and Growth of Wax Deposit in the Pipelining of Crude Oils....Pages 307-311
Simulations of the Spurt Phenomenon for Suspensions of Rod-Like Molecules....Pages 312-316
Minisymposium “Flow in Porous Media”....Pages 317-317
Multiscale Stochastic Homogenization of Convection-Diffusion Equations....Pages 318-322
Numerical Approximation of Boundary Layers for Rough Boundaries....Pages 323-327
Upscaling in Nonlinear Thermal Diffusion Problems in Composite Materials....Pages 328-332
Effective Two-Phase Flow Models Including Trapping Effects at the Micro Scale....Pages 333-339
Minisymposium “Multiscale Problems in Materials”....Pages 340-340
ADER DG and FV Schemes for Shallow Water Flows....Pages 341-345
Numerical Simulation of Bedload Sediment Transport Using Finite Volume Schemes....Pages 346-350
New Trends and Applications in Oceanographic Numerical Modelling....Pages 351-355
Study and Development of Numerical Models for the Simulation of Geophysical Flows: The DamFlow Project....Pages 356-360
On Variational Data Assimilation for 1D and 2D Fluvial Hydraulics....Pages 361-365
Minisymposium “Multiscale Problems in Materials”....Pages 366-367
An Asymptotic Solution of Aggregation Dynamics....Pages 368-375
Atomistic Simulations of the Incipient Plastic Deformation Mechanisms on Metal Surfaces....Pages 376-380
Critical Thickness for Misfit Dislocation Formation in InAs/GaAs(110) Heteroepitaxy....Pages 381-386
Discrete Dislocation Dynamics in Crystals....Pages 387-391
Interconnection of Continuum and Discrete Models of Dislocation Pile-ups....Pages 392-396
Simplified PN Models and Natural Convection—Radiation....Pages 397-401
Minisymposium “Nonlinear Charge and Spin Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures”....Pages 402-403
Electronic Transport in Nanowires at Different Length Scales....Pages 404-420
SU(4) Kondo Effect in a Mesoscopic Interferometer....Pages 421-425
Josephson Effect and Magnetic Interactions in Double Quantum Dots....Pages 426-430
Quantum Shuttle: Physics of a Numerical Challenge....Pages 431-439
Microscopical Model for Hyperfine Interaction in Electronic Transport Through Double Quantum Dots: Spin Blockade Lifting....Pages 440-443
Rabi Dynamics in Driven Tunneling Devices....Pages 444-448
Quantum-Transmitting-Boundary Algorithm with Local Spin—Orbit Coupling....Pages 449-453
Spintronic Transport in II–VI Magnetic Semiconductor Resonant Tunneling Devices....Pages 454-459
Hysteretic Linear Conductance in Single Electron Transport through a Single Atom Magnet....Pages 460-465
Minisymposium “Ferromagnetic Carbon Nanostructures”....Pages 466-466
Ferromagnetic Carbon Nanostructures....Pages 467-476
Looking for Ferromagnetic Signals in Proton-Irradiated Graphite....Pages 477-482
Ferromagnetism and Disorder in Graphene....Pages 483-487
Topological Defects and Electronic Properties in Graphene....Pages 488-493
Transport Through a Graphene Transistor....Pages 494-498
Minisymposium “PDAE Modelling and Multiscale Simulation in Microelectronics and New Technologies”....Pages 499-499
Domain Decomposition Techniques or Microelectronic Modeling....Pages 500-505
A Concept for Classification of Partial Differential Algebraic Equations in Nanoelectronics....Pages 506-511
Numerical Simulation of a Class of PDAEs with a Separation of Time Scales....Pages 512-517
Model Order Reduction for Nonlinear Differential Algebraic Equations in Circuit Simulation....Pages 518-523
Minisymposium “Numerical Methods for Semiconductor Kinetic Equations (COMSON Minisymposium)”....Pages 524-524
Comparing Kinetic and MEP Model of Charge Transport in Semiconductors....Pages 525-530
A Deterministic Solver to the Boltzmann-Poisson System Including Quantization Effects for Silicon-MOSFETs....Pages 531-536
Minisymposium of the ECMI SIG “Shape and Size in Medicine, Biotechnology and Material Sciences”....Pages 537-537
Size Functions Applied to the Statistical Shape Analysis and Classification of Tumor Cells....Pages 538-542
A Mathematical Morphology Approach to Cell Shape Analysis....Pages 543-547
Reconstruction of Transducer Pressure Fields from Schlieren Data....Pages 548-552
Plant Growth Modeling....Pages 553-558
Minisymposium “New Trends in the Analysis of Functional Genomics Data”....Pages 559-559
Bayesian Classifiers with Consensus Gene Selection: A Case Study in the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus....Pages 560-565
The Quest for Biological Significance....Pages 566-570
Functional Classification of Genes Using Non-Negative Independent Component Analysis....Pages 571-575
New Trends in the Analysis of Functional Genomic Data....Pages 576-580
Minisymposium: “Inverse Problems and Applications”....Pages 581-581
A Robustness Analysis of the Iterative Multi-Scaling Approach Integrated with Morphological Operations....Pages 582-586
Iterative Microwave Inversion Algorithm Based on the Adjoint-Field Method for Breast Cancer Application....Pages 587-591
Iterative Microwave Inversion for Breast Cancer Detection Using Level Sets....Pages 592-596
Characterization of Reservoirs by Evolving Level Set Functions Obtained from Geostatistics....Pages 597-602
Reconstruction of Simple Geometric Objects in 3D Optical Tomography Using an Adjoint Technique and a Boundary Element Method....Pages 603-607
High Contrast Electrical Impedance Imaging....Pages 608-612
Minisymposium “Finance” (Oxford)....Pages 613-613
Pricing Exotic Options Using Strong Convergence Properties....Pages 614-629
Credit Contagion in a Structural Framework....Pages 630-636
The Valuation of Elementary Exotics with Strike Resets....Pages 637-642
Minisymposium “On Optimal Strategies of Multivariate Passport Options”....Pages 643-644
Foresight Bias and Suboptimality Correction in Monte—Carlo Pricing of Options with Early Exercise....Pages 645-649
On the American Option Value Near its Exercise Region....Pages 650-654
Free Boundary Problems in Mathematical Finance....Pages 655-665
Optimal Strategies of Passport Options....Pages 666-670
Minisymposium “Meshfree Methods for the Solution of PDEs”....Pages 671-671
Solving One-Dimensional Moving-Boundary Problems with Meshless Method....Pages 672-676
Meshless Simulation of Hele-Shaw Flow....Pages 677-682
Minisymposium: “Mathematical Models for the Textile Industry”....Pages 683-684
Dynamics of Curved Viscous Fibers....Pages 685-690
Modeling and Simulation of Non-Woven Processes....Pages 691-696
Asymptotics of Fiber Spinning Equations....Pages 697-702
Three-Dimensional Elastica for Modelling Fibre Assemblies....Pages 703-707
Effective Properties of Nonwoven Textiles from Microstructure Simulations....Pages 708-712
Minisymposium “Approximate Algebraic Techniques for Curves and Surfaces”....Pages 713-713
Computing the Intersection Curve Between a Plane and the Offset of a Parametric Surface....Pages 714-718
Approximating Offsets of Surfaces by using the Support function Representation....Pages 719-723
Semantic Modelling for Styling and Design....Pages 724-728
Minisymposium “Web-based Learning Environments in Applied Mathematics”....Pages 729-730
An Industrial Application of an Integrated Framework for Production of Interactive Documents....Pages 731-735
An e-Learning Platform for Applications of Mathematics to Microelectronic Industry....Pages 736-740
Web Based System for Graduate Studies: Optimization, Games, and Markets....Pages 741-745
Web-Tool on Differential Equations....Pages 746-750
Model and Method to Increase the Thermal Efficiency of Micro-Heat Exchangers for Aerospace Applications....Pages 753-757
Influence of Trailing Jet Instability on the Dynamics of Starting Jets....Pages 758-762
Modelling and Computational Analysis of the Dynamic Crash Behaviour of Fabric Reinforced Composite Automotive Structures....Pages 763-767
Theoretical Modeling of Flame—Acoustic Interaction....Pages 768-773
Air-Blown Rivulet Flow of a Perfectly Wetting Fluid on an Inclined Substrate....Pages 774-778
The Effect of the Thermal Conductivity of the Substrate on Droplet Evaporation....Pages 779-783
The Effect of Particles on Linear and Weakly Nonlinear Instability of a Two-Phase Shallow Flows....Pages 784-789
Water Quality Simulation of a Future Pit Lake....Pages 790-794
Optimal Management and Design of a Wastewater Purification System....Pages 795-800
Estimation of Fuzzy Anomalies in Water Distribution Systems....Pages 801-805
Investigation of the Evolution and Breakup of Electrically Charged Drops....Pages 806-811
Homogeneous Nucleation of Dipole Domains and Current Self-Oscillations in Photoexcited Semiconductor Superlattices....Pages 812-816
Numerical Analysis of a Nickel-Iron Electrodeposition Process....Pages 817-821
A Simplified Finite Element Formulation for Spray Transfer GMA Weld Pools....Pages 822-826
Numerical Solution of a Non-Local Elliptic Problem Modeling a Thermistor with a Finite Element and a Finite Volume Method....Pages 827-832
Numerical Solution of 3D Magnetostatic Problems in Terms of Scalar Potentials....Pages 833-837
Optimization Methods for a Wifi Location System....Pages 838-842
Flow in the Canal of Schlemm and its Influence on Primary Open Angle Glaucoma....Pages 843-847
A One-Phase Model for Air-Breathing DMFC Cells with Non-Tafel Kinetics....Pages 848-852
Optimising Design Parameters of Enzyme-Channelling Biosensors....Pages 853-857
Breast Nodule Ultrasound Segmentation Through Texture-Based Active Contours....Pages 858-862
A Contrast Invariant Approach to Motion Estimation: Validation and Application to Motion Estimation Improvement....Pages 863-867
A Mathematical Model for Prediction of Recurrence in Bladder Cancer Patients....Pages 868-872
Use of the Fourier Transform in the Distributions Sense for Creation Numerical Algorithms for Cone-Beam Tomography....Pages 873-876
Shapley Value vs. Proportional Rule in Cooperative Affairs....Pages 877-881
A Wide Family of Solutions Based on Marginal Contributions for Situations of Competence—Cooperation with Structure of a Priori Coalition Blocks....Pages 882-886
Time-Varying Grids for Gas Dynamics....Pages 887-891
Meshless Poisson Problems in the Finite Pointset Method: Positive Stencils and Multigrid....Pages 892-896
Basics of a Differential-Geometric Approach to Diffusion: Uniting Lagrangian and Eulerian Models on a Manifold....Pages 897-901
Diagnostic Modelling of Digital Systems with Binary and High-Level Decision Diagrams....Pages 902-907
Numerical Integration in Bayesian Positioning....Pages 908-912
Singular Problems With Quadratic Gradient Term....Pages 913-917
Pattern Matching for Control Chart Monitoring....Pages 918-922
Index Characterization in DAE Circuit Models Without Passivity Assumptions....Pages 923-927
Fingerprint Classification using Entropy Sensitive Tracing....Pages 928-932
An Invariant Domain Preserving MUSCL Scheme....Pages 933-938
A Stable CE—SE Numerical Method for Time-Dependent Advection—Diffusion Equation....Pages 939-943
A Random Euler Method for Solving Differential Equations with Uncertainties....Pages 944-948
Cubic-Matrix Splines and Second-Order Matrix Models....Pages 949-953
Back Matter....Pages 955-988