Computational techniques and applications: CTAC-99

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Preface

John Noye and the Development of CTAC M.R.Osborne, Chair, Computational Mathematics Group

Computational challenges in data mining

Markus Hegland, See abstract and article, ppC1--C43

Numerical methods in inverse obstacle scattering

Rainer Kress, See abstract and article, ppC44--C67

Least squares fitting of parametric surfaces to measured data

G. A. Watson, See abstract and article, ppC68--C95

Twenty years of asymptotic correction for eigenvalue computation

Alan L. Andrew, See abstract and article, ppC96--C116

A mathematical model for heat transfer in grain store microclimates

Alexsandar Antic and James M. Hill, See abstract and article, ppC117--C133

Fractional step methods for the Navier-Stokes equations on non-staggered grids

S. W. Armfield and R. Street, See abstract and article, ppC134--C156

Flux-limiting and non-linear solution techniques for simulation of transport in porous media

M. Awad and I. Turner, See abstract and article, ppC157--C182

A spectral coupled ocean-atmosphere model

R. C. Balgovind, C. S. Frederiksen and J. S. Frederiksen, See abstract and article, ppC183--C199

Predicting transit times and flow concentrations of contaminants through a metropolitan sewage system

J. Barry, J. Crawford and P. Airey, See abstract and article, ppC200--C216

Hybrid algorithms for cyclically reduced convection-diffusion problems

M. Bhuruth, M. K. Jain and R. Boojhawon, See abstract and article, ppC217--C237

On some developments and evaluation of an Eulerian-Lagrangian method for the transport equation

F. Bierbrauer, W. K. Soh and W. Y. D. Yuen, See abstract and article, ppC238--C262

Domain decomposition with Robin boundary conditions across a phase interface

Hugh M. Blackburn, See abstract and article, ppC263--C290

Optimal numerical strategy for unsteady natural convection in two and three dimensions

Gary B. Brassington, See abstract and article, ppC291--C316

Some useful techniques for pointwise and local error estimates of the quantities of interest in the finite element approximation

T. Cao, D. W. Kelly and M. Ainsworth, See abstract and article, ppC317--C339

On weighted three point quadrature rules

P. Cerone, J. Roumeliotis and G. Hanna, See abstract and article, ppC340--C361

A numerical model of a towed cable-body system

C. K. H. Chin, R. L. May and H. J. Connell, See abstract and article, ppC362--C384

Parallelization of a finite element surface fitting algorithm for data mining

Peter Christen, Irfan Altas, Markus Hegland, Stephen Roberts, Kevin Burrage and Roger Sidje, See abstract and article, ppC385--C399

A parallel iterative linear system solver with dynamic load balancing

Peter Christen, See abstract and article, ppC400--C414

Identification and classification of interesting variable stars in the MACHO database

W. Clarke and M. Hegland, See abstract and article, ppC415--C433

The linear sampling method for three-dimensional inverse scattering problems

David Colton, Klaus Giebermann and Peter Monk, See abstract and article, ppC434--C460

Reliable computation of the points of intersection of n spheres in Rⁿ

I.D. Coope, See abstract and article, ppC461--C477

A direct search conjugate directions algorithm for unconstrained minimization

I. D. Coope and C. J. Price, See abstract and article, ppC478--C498

Collapse of a cylinder of Bingham fluid

Malcolm R. Davidson, N. Hasan Khan and Y. Leong Yeow, See abstract and article, ppC499--C517

Recovery of the boundary data for a linear second order elliptic problem with a nonlocal boundary condition

Hennie De Schepper and Mari'anSlodiv{c}ka, See abstract and article, ppC518--C535

Flow of a micropolar fluid bounded by a stretching sheet

A. Desseaux and N. A. Kelson, See abstract and article, ppC536--C560

Development of a new integration algorithm for parallel implementation of the finite element elasto-plastic analysis

Z. Ding, S. Kalyanasundaram, L. Grosz, S. Roberts and M. Cardew-Hall, See abstract and article, ppC561--C585

A non-standard branch and bound method for the Hamiltonian cycle problem

J.A. Filar and Jean B. Lasserre, See abstract and article, ppC586--C607

Chaos, potential predictability and model validation of climate variations

C. S. Frederiksen and X. Zheng, See abstract and article, ppC608--C626

Optimal program execution reversal

Andreas Griewank and Andrea Walther, See abstract and article, ppC627--C652

On residual smoothing in ILUM-type preconditioning

Lutz Grosz, See abstract and article, ppC653--C670

An Ostrowski type inequality in two dimensions using the three point rule

G. Hanna, P. Cerone and J. Roumeliotis, See abstract and article, ppC671--C689

The stream volume of fluid advection algorithm

Dalton J.E. Harvie and David F. Fletcher, See abstract and article, ppC690--C711

Finite element thin plate splines in density estimation

Markus Hegland, Giles Hooker and Stephen Roberts, See abstract and article, ppC712--C734

A lattice refinement scheme for finding periodic orbits

B.I. Henry, S.D. Watt and S.L. Wearne, See abstract and article, ppC735--C751

Transonic flow calculations using a dimensional splitting method

Hing Hung, John A. Gear and Natalie J. T. Phillips, See abstract and article, ppC752--C773

Optimising the degree of data smoothing for locally adaptive finite element bivariate smoothing splines

M.F. Hutchinson, See abstract and article, ppC774--C796

An asymptotic analysis for the flow between deformable rotating rolls

Huu-Nhon Huynh, See abstract and article, ppC797--C818

Thin plate spline interpolation on an annulus

David R. Jenkins, See abstract and article, ppC819--C836

Note on porous rotating disk flow

N. Kelson and A. Desseaux, See abstract and article, ppC837--C855

Simulation of vortex shedding flows using high-order fractional step methods

M. P. Kirkpatrick, S. W. Armfield, J. H. Kent and T. Dixon, See abstract and article, ppC856--C876

On discrete GB-splines

Boris I. Kvasov, See abstract and article, ppC877--C899

On limited memory SQP methods for large scale constrained nonlinear least squares problems

Z. F. Li, See abstract and article, ppC900--C917

Holistic finite differences accurately model the dynamics of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation

T. MacKenzie and A. J. Roberts, See abstract and article, ppC918--C935

A triangular coastal element developed for use in finite difference tidal models

David McInerney and John Noye, See abstract and article, ppC936--C953

Spectral element-Fourier methods applied to simulation of turbulent pipe flow

D. M. McIver, H. M. Blackburn and G. J. Nathan, See abstract and article, ppC954--C977

The scalability of parallel computers for sparse QR factorisation

David J. Miron, See abstract and article, ppC978--C995

Convergence behaviour of deflated GMRES(m) algorithms on AP3000

Kentaro Moriya and Takashi Nodera, See abstract and article, ppC996--C1018

An adaptive two-level method for hypersingular integral equations in $\Rnumb^3$

Patrick Mund and Ernst P. Stephan, See abstract and article, ppC1019--C1033

High dimensional wavelet smoothing

Ole MollerNielsen, See abstract and article, ppC1034--C1057

Solving the Navier-Stokes equations on a workstation cluster

S.E. Norris and S.W. Armfield, See abstract and article, ppC1058--C1075

Numerical study of the stability of some explicit finite-difference methods for oscillatory advection

John Noye and David McInerney, See abstract and article, ppC1076--C1096

On the inversion of sound channel data

M. R. Osborne, See abstract and article, ppC1097--C1113

Numerical techniques for simulating groundwater flow in the presence of temperature gradients

Irene Pestov, See abstract and article, ppC1114--C1136

Vibration of thick plates using finite strip-elements

J. Petrolito and B.W. Golley, See abstract and article, ppC1137--C1155

Numerical methods for the TSD equation in conservation law form

Natalie J.T. Phillips, John A. Gear and Hing Hung, See abstract and article, ppC1156--C1178

An implicit finite difference approximation to the one-dimensional transport equation

Frank G. Polanco and Robert L. May, See abstract and article, ppC1179--C1198

Least squares splines with variable knots using a smoothing spline basis

T. Prvan, See abstract and article, ppC1199--C1217

Numerical model of electrical potential within a human head

P.E. Rasser, M.D. Teubner and C.R. Clark, See abstract and article, ppC1218--C1237

An iterative analytic series method for Laplacian problems with free and mixed boundary conditions

W.W. Read, See abstract and article, ppC1238--C1259

Robust and efficient solution of the 2D shallow water equation with domains containing dry beds

Stephen Roberts and Christopher Zoppou, See abstract and article, ppC1260--C1282

Thermal ignition in rectangular and triangular regions

M.J. Sexton, C. Macaskill and B.F. Gray, See abstract and article, ppC1283--C1304

Analysis of measured stress data in a solid rocket motor

D.H. Smith and S.Y. Ho, See abstract and article, ppC1305--C1327

Accelerated methods for performing the LDLT decomposition

Peter E. Strazdins, See abstract and article, ppC1328--C1355

Numerical modelling of thermoelastic processes using nonlinear theories with thermal relaxation time

D. V. Strunin, R. V. N. Melnik and A. J. Roberts, See abstract and article, ppC1356--C1378

Hermite cubic spline collocation methods with upwind features

Weiwei Sun, See abstract and article, ppC1379--C1397

Asymptotic approximations for vibrational modes of helices

T. Tarnopolskaya and F.R. de Hoog, See abstract and article, ppC1398--C1419

Additive Schwarz preconditioners for a fully-discrete and symmetric boundary element method

Thanh Tran, See abstract and article, ppC1420--C1442

A time-synchronous domain decomposition code for multiphysics systems

M. G. Trefry, J. Öhman, D. S. Whyte and G. B. Davis, See abstract and article, ppC1443--C1464

Bifurcating combustion behaviour

R.O. Weber, G.N. Mercer and H.S. Sidhu, See abstract and article, ppC1465--C1481

Filtering methods for finite-time normal modes and atmospheric error growth

Mozheng Wei, Jorgen S. Frederiksen and Steve Kepert, See abstract and article, ppC1482--C1500

Iterative methods for Lyapunov vectors and singular vectors and atmospheric predictability

Mozheng Wei and Jorgen S. Frederiksen, See abstract and article, ppC1501--C1519

Calculation of droplet deformation at intermediate Reynolds number using a Volume of Fluid technique

David S. Whyte, Malcolm R. Davidson, Steven Carnie and Murray J. Rudman, See abstract and article, ppC1520--C1535

A continuous minimax problem for calculating minimum norm polynomial interpolation points on the sphere

Robert S. Womersley, See abstract and article, ppC1536--C1557

Determination of velocity and stress discontinuities in quasi-static granular flows

Yong-Hong Wu and Roger Collinson, See abstract and article, ppC1558--C1579

An exponentially fitted enthalpy control volume algorithm for coupled fluid flow and heat transfer

Y.H. Wu, B. Wiwatanapataphee, R. Collinson and G.Zhang, See abstract and article, ppC1580--C1598

Spatial and temporal rainfall approximation using additive models

C. Zoppou, S. Roberts and M. Hegland, See abstract and article, ppC1599--C1611