Mini-Symposia

Some Problems on Turbulence

Organizer: Ram S. Azad (University of Manitoba)

Experimental Verification of Structure Functions and Isotropic Vorticity Equation in a Conical Diffuser Flow

Ram S. Azad

Some Aspects of Turbulence Theory And Applications

E. A. Novikov

Structure-Based Turbulence Modeling

W. C. Reynolds and S. C. Kassinos

Blood Flow in Arteries

Organizer: Hans R. Chaudhry (UMDNJ \& NJIT)

Biological Responses to Hemodynamics

A. B. Ritter , H. R. Chaudhry, T. W. Findley, B. Bukiet, N. Guzulsu and M. Siegel

Role of Residual Stresses on Blood Flow in Arteries: Non-linear Elastic Aspects of the Arterial Wall

H. R. Chaudhry

Role of Residual Stresses on Blood Flow in Arteries: Non-linear Elastic Aspects Combined With Blood Flow in Arteries

M. Siegel, H. R. Chaudhry, B. Bukiet, D. S. Ahiuwalial, T. W. Findley, A. B. Ritter and N. Guzulsu

Negative Transmural Pressure and a New Collapse Criterion for Viscous Flows in Stenotic Collapsible Tubes

Dalin Tang, Chun Yang, Shunichi Kobayashi and David N. Ku

Multiphase Flows and Fluid Turbulence I

Organizer: Shiyi Chen and David Clague (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

On Statistical Mechanical Descriptions of Turbulent Coagulation

Lian-Ping Wang

Computing Oil Spreading Underneath a Sheet of Ice

Mark Sussman and Shotaro Uto

A Three-Dimensional Numerical Study of Two-phase Flow in Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities

Xiaolin Li

Flows in Soap Films: Turbulence And Compressibility

P. V. Vorobieff and R. E. Ecke

Multiphase Flows and Fluid Turbulence II

Organizer: Shiyi Chen and David Clague (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Oscillatory Drift Effects for Colloidal Particles near Pore Entrances --- Implications for Influencing Membrane Transport

Ludwig Nitsche

Meso-Scale Modeling and Visualization for Flow Transverse to Arrays of Unidirectional Fiber Bundles

T. D. Papathanasiou

The Motion of Small Particles in Viscoelastic Fluids

Ronald J. Phillips

Rheological Basis of The Particle Migration Phenomenon in Suspensions: The Role of Normal Stresses

J. F. Morris

Perturbation of Natural Convection Flows by Spherical and Cylindrical Obstacles

Johannes M. Nitsche

Variational Methods: Theory and Applications

Organizer: Rustum Choksi (Simon Fraser University)

Exact Relations for Composites: Towards a Complete Solution

Yuri Grabovsky, G. Milton and D. Sage

Distance Between Components in Optimal Design Problems

Christopher Larsen

Domains and Patterns in Ferromagnets

Carlos Garcia Cervera

Constrained Variational Problems

Konstantina Trivisa

Stratified Flows

Organizer: Aline Cotel (University of Manitoba)

Does Isopycnal Heaving Explain the Need for Background Diffusivity in Ocean Surface Mixed-Layer Models?

Konstantin Zahariev

Internal Mixing and Secondary Circulation in the Rotating Stratified Shear Flow of Juan de Fuca Strait

Michael Ott

In Search of Holmboe's Instability

G. A. Lawrence, S. P. Haigh and Z. Zhu}

Entrainment Across a Stratified Interface From a Tilted, Impinging Jet

Aline Cotel

Non-Linear Models (dedicated to Ian Duerden)

Organizer: Elena Croitoro (University of Victoria)

A Nonlinear Phase Field Model with Memory

Sergiu Aizicovici

The Stability of Abelian Higgs Vortices

S. Gustafson and I. M. Sigal

Solution of Nonlinear Solid Mechanics Problems by the Ale Formulation

Mohamed Gadala

Stress and Deformation Field in an Elastic Medium Containing a Spherical Crack Subject to Torsion

Elena M. Croitoro and Y. A. Godin

General Relativity and Gravitation

Organizer: Anadi Das (Simon Fraser University)

On the Static Einstein-Maxwell Field Equations

A. Das

Analytical Solutions of Spherically Symmetric Collapse of an Anisotropic Fluid Body into a Black Hole

S. Kloster

Solitons and Black Holes

J. Gegenberg

Aerodynamics I

Organizer: Robert W. Derksen (Univ. of Manitoba) and Jeffrey W. Yokota (Univ. of Alberta)

Computation of Flutter of Turbomachinery Cascades Using a Parallel Unsteady Navier-Stokes Code

Feng Liu

Progress with 3D Inverse Method for Turbomachine Blade Design

Thong Dang

An Experiment in Scientific Program Semantic Analysis

Mark E. M. Stewart

A Lagrangian Based Inverse Design Technique for Constructing Turbomachinery Blade Geometries

Jeffrey W. Yokota and Adam J. Medd

Aerodynamics II

Organizer: Robert W. Derksen (Univ. of Manitoba) and Jeffrey W. Yokota (Univ. of Alberta)

Progress in Computational Aerodynamics

David W. Zingg

Prediction of Developing Turbulent Pipe Flow by a Modified $k-\varepsilon-\gamma$ Model

You Qin Wang and R. W. Derksen

Aerodynamic Optimization of Axial Flow Fan Hub Nose Fairings

R. W. Derksen and J. R. Bender

Fuzzy Logic

Organizer: Bruno Di Stefano

Identifying Accident Prone Locations: A Fuzzy Pattern Recognition Approach

Tarek Sayed

A Low Cost Hardware Architecture for a Fuzzy Logic Processor to be Used in Real-Time Embedded Applications

Bruno Di Stefano

Fuzzy Logic Applications to Electric Power Systems

Tak Niimura

Analysis and Finite Element Approximations of \vskip 0.1in Superconductivity Models

Organizer: Lisheng Steven Hou (York University)

Finite Element Approximation of the 3 D Ginzburg-Landau Equations with Artificial Boundary Conditions

Du Qiang

Computational Results for Some Physical Phenomena in Superconductors

Max Gunzburger, Jennofer Deang and Janet Peterson

Mathematical Modeling of the Flux-Vortex Fields in High Temperature Superconductors and Dissipative Effects on the Magnetic Hysteresis Loop

Thomas Svobodny

Numerical Simulations of The Hysteretic Event in The Computation of Magnetization

James Turner

Examples of Mathematical Modelling in \vskip 0.1in The Paper Industry

Organizer: David Jeffrey (University of Western Ontario)

On the Use of Computational Fluid Dynamics to Model Industrial Processes

Martha Salcudean(FRSC), Ian Gartshore and Pingfan He

Mathematical Models to Physical Phenomena

R. J. Kerekes

Some Experimentation and Modeling in Fluid-Particle Systems

Jacob Masliyah(FRSC) and Joyce Chen

Mathematicas in Biology and Medicine

Organizer: Anna Lawniczak (University of Guelph)

Delayed Regulation in a Hormonal System

Jacques Belair

A Progression Model for HIV/AIDS

Pauline van den Driessche

Stability Switches in a Population Model with Nonlinear Birth Terms and Maturation Delay

Xingfu Zou, P. Van den Driessche and K. Cooke

From Individual to Collective Dynamics in Biological Systems: Modelling with Probabilistic Lattice Automata

Anna T. Lawniczak

Do Travelling Pulse Solutions Describe Migrating Organisms?

Leah Edelstein-Keshet

On Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Stability

Organizer: Roland Mallier (University of Western Ontario)

Nonlinear Evolution of Singular Disturbances to the Bickley Jet

Roland Mallier and Anthony M. J. Davis

Interactions Between Pairs of Oblique Waves in a Bickley Jet

Michael Haslam and Roland Mallier

The Nonlinear Stability of a tanh³y Mixing Layer

Simal Saujani and Roland Mallier

Numerical Simulation of a tanh³y Mixing Layer

John Drozd and Roland Mallier

Gravity Currents in the Environment

Organizer: T. Bryant Moodie and Bruce Sutherland (University of Alberta)

Gravity Currents Everywhere

J. E. Simpson

The Non-Boussinesq Lock Exchange Problem and Related Phenomena

J. W. Rottman

Steady, Non-Dissipative Theory of Gravity Currents in Rotating Channels

J. N. Hacker

Dynamics of Radiating Cold Domes on a Sloping Bottom

G. E. Swaters

Excitation of Trapped Internal Waves by Gravity Currents

B. R. Sutherland

Buoyancy-Driven Flow in a Pipe - Effective Pipe Purging

P. F. Linden

Non-hydrostatic Effects on Rotating Gravity Currents

S. Allen

Gravity Currents in Rotating Fluids

J. A. Whitehead

Propagation of Internal Bores

R. Rotunno

Non-Linear Waves

Organizer: Keith Promislow (Simon Fraser University)

Forced Evolution Equations, Bifurcation, Stability, and Collision of Uniform Solitons

Samuel S. Shen

Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation : Self-Focusing Instability and Wave Collapse

Catherine Sulem

Studies on Solitary Waves, Tidal Waves and Their Interactions

Chen Min

On the Resonance of Long Internal Waves with Shear Flow in Shallow Water

Dmitri Pelinovsky

On Low Reynolds Number Hydrodynamics

Organizer: Keith Ranger(FRSC) (University of Toronto)

Low Reynolds Number Flows Induced by Molecular Diffusion in Quiescent Systems

Howard Brenner and Venkat Ganesan

Transient Stokes Flow

S. H. Smith

Scavenging of Small Particles of Fast-Sinking Porous Aggregates: Asymptotic Mobility Estimates for Limited Permeability

A. M. J. Davis

Concentration Fluctuations in Turbulent Diffusion: \vskip 0.1in New Stochastic Models

Organizer: Paul J. Sullivan (University of Western Ontario)

Modelling PDFs In Turbulent Diffusion

P. C. Chatwin

A Simple Model OF Concentration Fluctuations in Neutrally Buoyant and Dense Gas Clouds

D. M. Lewis

Predicting Skewness of a Scalar Concentration PDF

F. Labropulu and P.J. Sullivan

Removal of Instrument Noise in Turbulent Diffusion Contaminant Concentration Data

T. P. Schopflocher and P. J. Sullivan

Multiphase Fluid Dynamics

Organizer: Hassan Soliman (University of Manitoba)

Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer Modelling: An Engineering Tool for Process Optimization

Martha Salcudean(FRSC)

Visualization Studies of Flow Structures in Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow

M. Kawaji

A Study on the Effect of G-Jitter on Bubble Motion at Microgravity: Results from a Recent Shuttle Flight

Kamiel Rezkallah

Analysis of Subcooled Boiling Heat Transfer on Finned Surfaces

J. E. Kowalski

Supercomputing and Adaptive Methods for Unsteady \vskip 0.1in Shock Wave Flows

Organizer: K. Takayama and E. Timokeev (Tohoku University)

A Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement Algorithm for the Simulation of Explosions

Charles A. Rendleman, Vincent E. Beckner, Mike Lijewski, William Y. Crutchfield, John B. Bell and Alen Kuhl

A Large-Scale Blast Simulations Using Unstructured Adaptive Grids

Rainald Lohner and Joseph D. Baum

High-Resolution Adaptive Computation of a Hypersonic Internal Flow

Sannu Molder, Eugene V. Timofeev and Peter A. Voinovich

Application of an Adaptive Refinement Technique to Resolve Low-Scale Features in Essentially Unsteady 2D/3D Shock Reflections on Vector and Parallel Computers

Eugene V. Timofeev, Peter A. Voinovich and Kazuyoshi Takayama

Higher Order Methods for Incompressible Flow I

Organizer: T. Tang (Simon Fraser Univ.) and B. Wetton (Univ. of British Columbia)

Higher Order Finite Difference Methods for Incompressible Viscous Flow

Brian Wetton

The Accuracy of the Fractional Step Method

John Strikwerda and Young Lee

Numerical Simulation of Incompressible Flows in Enclosed Cylinder(s) Using a Spectral-Projection Method

Jie Shen

Integral Equation Methods for Stokes Flow

Mary Catherine Kropinski

Higher Order Methods for Incompressible Flow II

Organizer: T. Tang (Simon Fraser Univ.) and B. Wetton (Univ. of British Columbia)

Numerical Simulation of Ocean Circulation

Tao Tang

$\bf 4^{th$ Order Essentially Compact Finite Difference Method for Unsteady Viscous Incompressible Flow in Vorticity Formulation

Hans Johnston and Jian-Guo Liu

A Fourth-Order Accurate Difference Approximation for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations

William Henshaw

The Stability of the Finite Difference Schemes for Stokes Equations

Young Lee

Analysis of Dynamic Fracture Models

Organizer: Jay R. Walton (Texas A\&M University)

On the Numerical Solution of Integro-Differential Equations in Dynamic Fracture

Francesco Costanzo

Crack Dynamics in Viscoelastic Lattices

L. I. Slepyan, M. V. Ayzenberg and J. P. Dempsey

On Dynamically Growing Cracks in Elastic Material

Jay R. Walton

Solving Some Large Matrix Application Problems

Organizer: Qiang Ye (University of Manitoba)

Cosine Transform Based Preconditioners for High-Resolution Image Reconstruction with Multisensors

Raymond H. Chan, Wun-Cheung Tang and Michael K. Ng

Sensitivity of Factors of Structured Matrices

Xiao-Wen Chang and Chris Paige

Large Matrix Computations Arising from Object Recognition

Ren-Cang Li

Large-scale SVD and Information Retrieval

O. Marques, H. Simon and H. Zha

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