Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 94

I believe that there exist two different worlds of Mathematics: the world of Mathematics in Industry and the world of Mathematics at Universities. Based on a similar activity of the human mind, which we generally call doing mathematics, they have different aims, different hierarchies of values and, therefore, different structures. And there are only few contacts between them: Mathematics at Universities in general follows its interior rules not caring for the needs expressed by the exterior world; Mathematics in Industry very often does not find enough time to watch the developments in the second world and is exclusively driven by industrial problems. The coupling of the two worlds, however, is necessary for both of them: industry needs ideas from academic mathematics as a source of innovation, to improve simulations, optimisations, quality control, etc. University mathematics needs industry as a source of exiting problems, of jobs for their graduates, of prestige and last but not least of additional funding. There are some attempts to make closer contact with each other: large high tech companies have their antennas checking new ideas for applicability - and there are attempts at universities called Mathematics for Industry trying to find mathematical solutions for industrial problems. However, these attempts are quite limited: small- and medium-sized companies, for example, have no chance to keep contact - and what academics call a solution for a problem is often far from what industry is looking for.

Aerospace Industry.- Some Applications of Mathematics in Aeronautics and Perspectives (invited paper).- Small Satellites for Deep Space Operation - a Challenge to Optimal Control.- Numerical Computation of Optimal Ascent Trajectories with a Dynamic Pressure Limit.- Real-Time Optimisation for the Guidance of Dynamic Systems.- Time Discrete Event Systems and Time Tables.- Parallel Computation in Air Traffic Guidance.- The Numerical Investigation of the Two-dimensional Shock Wave Reflection.- Automotive Industry.- The Direct Modification of Surface Curvatures in Car Body Design (invited paper).- The Influence of Drive Shafts and Reduction Gears on Wheel Suspension Characteristics.- Domain Decomposition Based Solvers for Industrial Stress Analysis with Boundary Elements.- Calculating Engineering Loads from Strain Data.- Dynamic Assignment of Vehicular Traffic Dynamic in Road Networks.- The Mathematical Modelling of Drying Paint Layers.- Chemical Industry.- Adaptive Algorithms in Dynamical Process Simulation (introduction, survey and invited paper).- A Parametic Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Algorithm for Process Synthesis under Uncertainty.- The Role of Computational Molecular and Material Science for the Chemical Industry.- Modelling Reation Kinetics - an Interdisciplinary Challenge for Mathematics.- PREDICI - A Software Package for Real-Life Polymerisation Kinetics.- An Adaptive Galerkin Method for the PDF Transport Equation of Turbulent Flow.- Turbulent Diffusion Flames: PDF-Modelling and Comparison to Raman/Rayleigh Measured PDFs.- Some 3-D Gas Flow Effects in Detonator Delay Elements.- Calculating the 3-D-Structure of Macromolecules by Hierarchical Domain and Function Decomposition.- Fast Simulation of Laser-induced Excitation of Molecules.- Instabilitiesin the Extrusion of Polymers due to Spurt.- Modeling Polymer Flow Instabilities.- Simulation of an Extraction Column.- A Mathematical Model for the Dynamics of Sediments in a Pipeline.- Mathematical Simulation of Liquid Transport in Fleece.- A Model for the Cloudiness of Fabrics.- Chip Production.- Chip Production (introduction and survey paper).- Parallel Circuit Simulation on Workstation Clusters.- Numerical Solution of Differential-algebraic Equations in Electric Circuit Simulation.- The Simulation of Oscillatory Circuits: An Efficient Integration Scheme.- Optimum Design of Microwave Oscillators with Minimized Phase Noise.- Construction of Bayesian Network Model for Integrated Circuits Parametric Testing.- Efficient Algorithms for Bayesian Network: an Application to Integrated Circuit Manufacturing.- A Direct Method for the Numerical Calculation of Quasiperiodic Solutions Applied to Coupled van der Pol Oscillators.- Hydrodynamical Models for Semiconductors.- Drying Flow in a Thin Film Induced by the Presence of Alcohol Vapour.- Metallurgic Processes.- Electromagnetic-Hydrodynamic Coupling in the Treatment of Liquid Metal.- Mathematical Models for the Phase Transitions in Carbon Steel.- Real-time Control of Metallurgic Processes.- Theoretical and Numerical Aspects of Controlled Cooling of Steel Profiles (invited paper).- Spray-forming Aluminium Billets.- Induction Heating for Three-Dimensional Axisymmetric Geometries: Modeling and Numerical Simulation.- Identification of Nonlinear Heat Transfer Laws by Means of Boundary Data.- Geodesy.- Gravitational Field Determination (survey paper).- Discrete Spatial Models for Fuzzy Geographical Objects.- Variations in Earth Rotation: Solutions of the EULER-LIOUVILLE Equation as a Boundary Value Problem.- Efficient Use of Algorithms for Path Optimization in GIS: Problems and Requirements.- Uniqueness Problems in Satellite Gradiometry.- Spherical Wavelet Packets and its Application in Physical Geodesy.- Applied Control.- An Overview of Results in Iterative Learning Control.- Numerical Realization of the Balanced Reduction of a Control Problem.- Simulation and Analysis of Random Vibration Systems.- Nonlinear Stochastic Vibrations of Vehicles.- Observers for a Generator Shaft.- Forward-Propagation in RBF-Networks.- Wacker Prize.- Numerical Simulation of Electrochemical Drilling.