Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 96

The use of mathematical models in industry is steadily growing. There is a continuous need in industry for new and efficient mathematical techniques, and university mathematicians get inspiration from industrial demands. The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry aims to create contact between industry and academia, and to promote research in industrial mathematics. This book contains a broad spectrum of mathematics applied to industrial problems presented at the 1996 ECMI conference in Lyngby/Copenhagen, Denmark. Applied mathematics, case studies, and review papers in the following fields are included: Environmental modelling / Railway systems / Industrial processes / Electronics, circuits, and filters / Ship industry / Oil industry / Optimization in industry / Dynamics of machinery / Fluids in industry Applied mathematicians and other professionals working in academia or industry will find the book to be a useful and inspiring source of mathematical applications related to industrial problems. More information on indmath.uni-linz.ac.at/www/ind/ecmi.html> ECMI

Environmental modelling.- A Method of Lines Approach for River Alarm Systems.- The use of bubbles in purification ponds for exhaust gases.- A similarity solution for light oil spreading on groundwater.- Estimation of a low pass filter for solar radiation data.- Propagation of the low-frequency noise generated by power station water-cooling towers.- A Mathematical Model of a Hollow-Fibre Filter.- Railway systems.- A brief survey of wheel-rail contact: Theory, Algorithms, Applications (Invited presentation).- Wear profiles and the dynamical simulation of wheel-rail systems.- Dynamic response of a periodically supported railway track in case of a moving complex phasor excitation.- A mathematical treatise of periodic structures under traveling loads with an application to railway tracks.- The Bifurcation Behaviour of Periodic Solutions of Impact Oscillators.- Industrial processes.- Modelling industrial processes involving infiltration in deformable porous media.- Modelling the Thermal Decomposition of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in an Ideal Turbulent Incinerator.- Mathematical model for isobaric non-isothermal crystallization of polypropylene.- Stochastic modelling and morphological features of polymer crystallization processes.- Mathematical model of Deep-bed Grain Layer Drying by ventilation.- A model of oil Burnout from Glass Fabric.- Computing of the trajectories generated by 2D discrete model approximations of the dynamics of differential linear repetitive processes.- A certain mathematical model of the glass fibre material production.- Electronics, circuits and filters.- Numerical Solutions for the Simulation of Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits.- Symbolic Modelling in Circuit Simulation.- An extended hydrodynamic model for silicon semiconductor devices.- Oscillations of a miniature single stator synchronous motor.- White Noise and Nonlinear Damping in the Two-Dimensional Model of Energy Transfer in Molecular Systems.- Mathematics of Denominator-separable Multidimensional Digital Filters with Application to Image Processing.- Comparison and Assessment of Various Wavelet and Wavelet Packet Based Denoising Algorithms for Noisy Data.- Ship industry.- Hydrodynamic Design of Ship Hull Shapes by Methods of Computational Fluid Dynamics (Invited presentation).- Superplastic Protective Structures.- Trial methods for nonlinear Bernoulli problem.- A Direct (Potential Based) Boundary Element Method for the Lifting Bodies Hydrodynamic Calculation.- Procedure for Free Surface Potential Flow Numerical Simulation around Ship Model Hulls using Finite Element Method (Galerkin Formulation).- Oil industry.- Mathematics for the oil industry: non-mathematical review and views (Invited presentation).- Discretization on general grids for general media.- Identification of Mobilities for the Buckley-Leverett Equation by Front Tracking.- Flow of waxy crude oils.- Modelling of Bending Effects in Oil-Water Microemulsions.- Optimization in industry.- Optimal power dispatch via multistage stochastic programming.- Solving the unit commitment problem in power generation by primal and dual methods.- Optimal Trajectory and Configuration of Commuter Aircraft with Stochastic and Gradient Based Methods.- A general multi-objective optimization program for mixed continuous/integer variables based on genetic algorithms.- The optimization of natural gas liquefaction processes.- Genetic algorithm methodologies for scheduling electricity generation.- Target Zone Models with Price Inertia: A Numerical Solution Method.- Dynamics of machinery.- Model Reduction of Random Vibration Systems.- On Compensation of Vibration of High-Speed Press Automatic Machine.- Identification of External Actions on Dynamic Systems as the Method of Technical Diagnostics.- Fluids in industry.- Capillary effects in thin films.- The Linear Stability of Channel Flow of Fluid with Temperature-Dependent Viscosity.- Adaptive Methods in Internal and External Flow Computations.- Bifurcation, symmetry and parameter continuation in some problems about capillary-gravity waves.- Wacker price.- Evolution of Sedimentation Profiles in the Transport of Coal Water Slurries through a Pipeline.