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Progress in industrial mathematics at ECMI 2000. Proceedings of the 11th conference of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, ECMI 2000, Sicily, Italy, 2000. (English) Zbl 0984.00043

Mathematics in Industry, 1. Berlin: Springer. xv, 666 p. EUR 69.95/net; sFr. 116.00; £49.00; $ 79.95 (2002).
The 108 papers in this collection include the following:
Plenary talks:
H. Neunzert, Why do we do ”industrial mathematics”? Some comments on reasons once given by Alan Tayler (3–15); M. A. Herrero, From nucleation to large aggregates: the growth of filamentary (16–27); A. Adelmann and R. Jeltsch, State of the art simulations of high intense particle beams in complicated accelerator structures (28–41); C. J. van Duijn, A. Mikelic and I. S. Pop, Effective Buckley-Leverett equations by homogenization (42–51).
Minisymposia:
Finance (Organizer S. Howison): S. Howison and D. Lamper, Trading volume in models of financial derivatives (57–62); N. Svanstedt, Two-scale asymptotics for stochastic volatility models (63–66); D. Bakstein and P. Wilmott, Non-probabilistic jump modelling for financial derivatives (67–71).
Fuel Pipelines (Organizer A. Fasano): M. Drago and A. Terenzi, Mass gravity flows modelling (75–79); A. Fasano and F. Rosso, Recent results in the dynamics of liquid dispersions (80–84); L. Fusi, Some new results on the flow of waxy crude oils in a loop (85–88).
Image Processing: Linear and nonlinear techniques (Organizer M. Mancuso, L. Puccio): M. Bertero and P. Boccacci, Image restoration problems for new-generation technologies (91–95); M. Mancuso, Image processing for digital still cameras (96–104); M. Cotronei and L. Puccio, Multiwavelets and image processing (105–109).
Information and Communication Technologies (Organizer A. M. Greco): 5 contributions.
Kinetic Transport in Semiconductor Devices (Organizer O. Muscato): H. Cornille and C. Cercignani, On a class of large size planar discrete velocity models for gas mixtures (157–163); C. Drago and A. Majorana, Time-depending solutions to spherical harmonic equations for semiconductor devices (164–168); A. Majorana, A comparison between bulk solutions to the Boltzmann equation and the spherical harmonic model for silicon devices (169–173); G. Mascali and M. Trovato, An extended fluid-dynamical model describing electron transport in semiconductors (174–178); O. Muscato, Monte Carlo verification of an extended hydrodynamic model describing charge carrier transport in semiconductors (179–184); E. Polizzi and N. Ben Abdallah, Modeling of quantum ballistic transport in electron waveguide devices (185–189); S. Reggiani, M. Marsella, A. Gnudi and M. Rudan, Carrier transport in Silicon dioxide using spherical harmonics expansion of the BTE (190–194).
Liquid/Solid PhaseTransictions and Interfaces (Organizers P. Bontoux et al.): 4 contributions a.o.: M. El Ganaoui and P. Bontoux, Computational model for solidification process of a binary alloy (204–209); R. Guérin, M. El Ganaoui, A. Lamazouade and P. Haldenwang, Numerical study for solutal convection in liquid alloy by spectral and finite volume approximations (210–217).
Mathematical Problems in Glass Industry (Organizer N. Siedow): N. Siedow and S. Manservisi, Optimal design of thermo-electrical flanges (225–229); K. Laevsky and R. M. M. Mattheij, Numerical simulation of the plunger velocity (230–235).
Microelectronics (Organizers M. Anile, M. Günther): 6 contributions a.o.: V. Romano, Energy transport model for silicon semiconductors derived from the non parabolic band hydrodynamical model based on the maximum entropy principle (246–251); A. Bartel, M. Günther and A. Kværnø, Multirate methods in electrical circuit simulation (258–265); S. H. M. J. Houben and J. M. Maubach, An accelerated Poincaré-map method for finding the PSS of autonomous oscillators (266–271); W. H. A. Schilders, Iterative solution of linear systems in circuit simulation (272–277).
Models of Highway Traffic (Organizer R. E. Wilson): P. Berg and A. Woods, Travelling waves in a linearly stable, optimal-velocity model of road traffic (281–285); B. S. Kerner, Discovering synchronized flow as a new traffic phase and related problems for traffic flow modeling (286–292); R. E. Wilson, Gipps’ model of highway traffic (293–297)
Models from the Textile Industry (Organizers H. Neunzert, H. Ockendon): T. Götz, Asymptotic methods for air-flow around fibers (301–305); M. E.-M. Lee and H. Ockendon, A continuum model for the carding machine (306–310).
Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic and Kinetic Equations (Organizer G. Puppo): G. Russo, Central schemes for balance laws (313–317); K.-A. Lie and S. Noelle, High resolution nonoscillatory central difference schemes for the 2D Euler equations via artificial compression (318–324); F. Filbet and L. Pareschi, Numerical solution of the non homogeneous Fokker-Planck-Landau equation (325–331); G. Naldi, Multiscale hyperbolic equations: numerical approximation and applications (332–338); R. Fazio, Similarity and numerical analysis of a singular moving boundary hyperbolic problem (339–343).
Problems of Charge transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures (Organizers L. L. Bonilla, J. Soler): E. R. Arriola, L. L. Bonilla and J. Soler, Quantum kinetic equation including phonon scattering (347–357); J. Nieto, P. Bechouche, E. R. Arriola and J. Soler, On a variational approach to the time evolution of the mean field polaron (358–364); A. Carpio and L. L. Bonilla, Wavefronts in photoexcited semiconductor superlattices (365–371); D. Sánchez, G. Platero and L. L. Bonilla, Nonlinear transport in semiconductor superlattices (372–385); M. Kindelan and L. L. Bonilla, Periodic recycling and motion of wavefronts in a model of the Gunn effect with saturating current characteristics (386–398).
Polymers (Organizers G. Marrucci, F. Van de Ven): 6 contributions a.o.: A. Micheletti, Numerical simulation of a stochastic system modelling nonisothermal crystallization of polymers (401–407); H. J. J. Gramberg and A. A. F. van de Ven, Thermally induced flow front instabilities in injection moulding (433–438).
Some Applications of Fluid and Gas Dynamics (Organizer G. Russo): 3 contributions a.o.: M. Hilden, Estimation of flood risks in urban areas – the curb as a challenge for SWE (441–445); M. Junk, The lattice Boltzmann method for two-phase flows and applications to filtration processes (451–456).
Teaching of Industrial Mathematics at ECMI Centers (Organizer Harald E. Krogstad): H. E. Krogstad, Mathematical modelling – a challenging course (459–465); M. Bracke, Solving industrial problems – learning by doing (466–471).
Contributed talks
30 contributions a.o.: D. Ambrosi, A. Farina and L. Preziosi, Recent developments and open problems in composites materials manufacturing (475–487); A. Buiķis, J. Cepītis, H. Kalis and A. Reinfelds, Non-isothermal mathematical model of wood and paper drying (488–492); M. Burger, J. Haslinger and U. Bodenhofer, Tuning of fuzzy systems as an ill-posed problem (493–498); M. De Giosa and R. M. Mininni, Estimation problems for a crystallization process modelled by a dynamic germ-grain model (499–505); E. Gavrilova, Coupled frequencies of a fluid in closed circular cylindrical rigid tank with an elastic annular plate in its roof (544–548); M. Gerdts, Numerical treatment of optimal control problems with differential-algebraic equations and applications to virtual test-drives (549–553); G. Haase, U. Langer, E. Lindner and W. Mühlhuber, Optimal shape design and optimal sizing of industrial components (560–564); L. Hanich and C. P. Thompson, Mathematical and numerical modelling of three-phase flows in pipelines (565–570); R. J. Henery and U. G. Shehu, A fast nearest neighbour algorithm (571–576); A. Majorana and R. M. Pidatella, A new finite difference scheme for the Boltzmann-Poisson system on semiconductor devices (592–596); T. Materne, M. Günther, A. Klar and R. Wegener, An explicit kinetic model for traffic flow (597–601); M. S. Mongiovi, A nonlinear nonviscous hydrodynamical model for change transport derived from kinetic theory (602–607); B. F. Nielsen, O. Skavhaug and A. Tveito, A penalty scheme for solving American option problems (608–612); S. B. G. O’Brien, M. Hayes and J. H. Lammers, Evaporative and topographical effects in coating flows (613–617); J. Orlik, Homogenization for viscoelastic composites with prescribed interface jumps in displacements and stresses (618–624); F. Raciti and E. Venturino, A numerical method for quantum billiards with an application to waveguides (636–640); A. Scascighini, A. Troxler and R. Jeltsch, Inverse design of an axis-symmetric diffuser (641–645); M. Schaub and B. Simeon, Blended Lobatto methods with variable numerical damping in multibody dynamics (646–650); C. F. Stein and P. Johansson, An asymptotic method for a conjugate heat transfer problem (651–656); V. Zoller and I. Zobory, Relations between the motion-responses caused by fixed and moving loads acting on discretely supported strings and beams (657–661).
The articles will not be reviewed individually.
The preceding conference (10, 1998) has been reviewed (see Zbl 0983.00012).

MSC:

00B25 Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest
00A69 General applied mathematics
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