Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Mathematics in Industry: August 28–31, 1988 Glasgow: European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, cartea 5

Invited Speakers.- On non-linear magnetostatics: dual-complementary models and “mixed” numerical methods.- Modeling for field-effect transistors.- Supercomputers — 1988.- Simulated annealing: theory of the past, practice of the future?.- Domain decomposition for a generalized Stokes problem.- Mathematical simulation and optimization of chemical plants.- Mini-Symposium 1.- Numerically intensive computing.- Fomulation of a sea model with continuous density stratification in the vertical.- Electroplating simulation.- Elastic modelling on the IBM 3090 vector multiprocessor.- Solving a model interface problem for the Laplace operator by boundary collocation and applications.- Mini-Symposium 2.- On flow-induced vibrations of overhead transmission lines.- Non-linear free vibrations of coupled spans of suspended cables.- Vibrations of overhead transmission lines: computations and experiments.- On the modeling of a continuous oscillator by oscillators with a finite number of degrees of freedom.- Mini-Symposium 3.- Some novel partial differential equations problems arising in industry.- Modeling coronas and space charge phenomena.- Temperature surges in thermistors.- Mixed hyperbolic-elliptic systems in industrial problems.- Contributed Papers.- Linear and non-linear approximation of power density spectra with linear dynamical filter systems.- Modelling software reliability from run-time data.- Software simulation of model reference adaptive control systems.- Effective length of an ultrafiltration device.- Truncated sequential tests for material control problems.- On the approximation of free vibration modes of a general thin shell application to turbine blades.- Integration algorithms for the dynamic simulation of production processes.- Multicomponent flow computation withapplication to steam condensers.- Natural convection within a droplet as a result of a chemical reaction on its surface.- Unwanted compartment fires: zone modelling the onset of hazardous conditions.- A tree search approach based on an assignment relaxation for the solution of set covering problems.- Making a workpiece with spiral turns by means of forming cutters.- State variables feedback control of stepping motors with flexible shaft.- Application of mathematics to heat processing in the meat industry.- Numerical modelling of conjugate heat transfer in an advanced gas-cooled reactor fuelstandpipe.- Restoration of NMR images.- An on-line augmented price correction technique for hierarchical control of interconnected industrial processes.- A least-squares fitting technique for use with large non-linear plant models.- Spline approximation of offset curves and offset surfaces.- Diffusion flame ignition by a recirculating flow.- On the real-time simulation and control of the continuous casting process.- Simulation of VLSI circuits: relaxation techniques.- Development of models for flashing two-phase jet releases from pressurised containment.- Robust recursive estimation: the Lp approach.- Numerical approximation of free boundary problems in polymer crystallization.- Ignition/extinction phenomena: an investigation of parametric sensitivity for a strongly non-linear reaction-diffusion system.- On the methods for optimal shape design.- Steady-state optimization of large gas networks.- Modelling and control of acid-base blending systems.- The prediction of cyclic plastic strain growth behaviour for severe thermal loading problems in structural engineering using upper bound methods and linear programming.- Three problems in the integration of electric circuits by ROW-type methods.- Controller design for industrial multipass processes.- Computer-integrated production-planning and inventory-control at an automobile-engine producer.- Numerical solution of a liquid crystal problem by optimization.- LACTEO: A dairy management and forecasting system.- Identification of amplitude and phase discontinuities in the intensity signal of a Nd-YAG solid state laser.- Gel electrophoresis and graph matching.- Mathematical models of silicon chip fabrication.- On a partial integro-differential equation related to the dynaliser concept for industrial rubber materials.