Applied Mathematics Seminars — Spring 1987

Applied Mathematics Bull Session

Penn State University: 1986-87 Session
SPRING SEMESTER 1987

Converted from past_seminars/cam_colloquium/spring87.dvi (DVI) — 16 talks.

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
14 Jan 87 T.B. Benjamin Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford Driven free-surface flows at small Reynolds numbers
23 Jan 87 P.J. Morris Dept of Aerospace Engineering, PSU Simple models for “turbulent” shear flows
30 Jan 87 G. Chen Dept of Mathematics, PSU Wave scattering and absorption by bodies (Stealth Technology)
6 Feb 87 S. Tavener IMA, Minnesota Bifurcation and the Taylor experiment
13 Feb 87 L. Hayes Engineering: ASE/EM, University of Texas – Austin Preconditioners for finite-element methods
20 Feb 87 R. Wells Dept of Mathematics, PSU Dynamical systems and Meteorology
27 Feb 87 M. Felland Dept of Mathematics, PSU Model equations for nonlinear dispersive waves in shallow water
13 Mar 87 N. Ghosh Dept of Mathematics, PSU The Boundary-element Method for problems in the theory of Elasticity
20 Mar 87 O. Betancourt Dept of Mathematics, New York University Computational methods for M.H.D. flows
27 Mar 87 R.L. Sachs Dept of Mathematics, PSU "On the stability of solitary waves’ APPLIED MATHEMATICS BULL SESSION SPRING SEMESTER 1987 (ctd)
3 Apr 87 G. Ponce Dept of Mathematics, University of Chicago “Euler and Navier Stokes equations in Sobolev spaces”
10 Apr 87 C.L. Merkle Dept of Mechanical Engineering, PSU On numerical methods for the Navier-Stokes equations, and related problems
17 Apr 87 R.P. Kanwal Dept of Mathematics, PSU Generalized functions and integral equations
24 Apr 87 T.M. York Dept of Aerospace Engineering, PSU Some experiments in Plasma Physics
4 May 87 T. Souganidis Applied Mathematics, Brown University A P.D.E. approach for geometrical optics for certain reaction-diffusion equations
7 May 87 M.E. Shearer Dept of Mathematics, Univ. of North Carolina Hyperbolicity and problems of mixed type for oil-recovery models