Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Great Lakes Section 2007 Spring Meeting ­

Numerical Partial Differential Equations, Modeling, Algorithms and Applications

April 21, 2007

Meadow Brook Hall, Oakland University

 

Funding agencies: SIAM, Oakland University Research Committee

 

Place: Ballroom, Meadow Brook Hall (MBH), Oakland University (OU)

Program:

 

 

Title and abstract of presentations

10:00 – 11:00 AM

Registration

 

11:00 – 11:15 AM

Welcome

Virinder Moudgil, Provost, OU

Michael Lachance, Co-President, GLSIAM

 

11:15 AM – 12:00 PM

David Calk

General Motors

Analyzing Liquid Metal Flow in Die Casting

 

12:00 – 1:00 PM

Box Lunch (provided)

 

1:00 – 1:45 PM

Marsha Berger

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

Algorithms and Issues for Flow Computations Using Embedded Boundary Grids

 

1:45 – 2:30 PM

Gang Bao

Michigan State University

 

2:30 – 3:15 PM

Guojun Gordon Liao University of Texas, Arlington

The Deformation Method for Grid Generation

3:15 – 4:00 PM

Refreshments

Poster presentations

 

4:00 – 4:45 PM

David Gorsich

The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research

 

4:45 – 5:30 PM

Zhimin Zhang

Wayne State University

Recovery type a posteriori error estimates and adaptive algorithms

 

5:30 – 6:00 PM

Discussions

 

6:00 – 8:00 PM

Dinner

 

 

Travel directions and campus map: http://www2.oakland.edu/map/

Directions to Meadow Brook Hall:

Exit I75 at #79. Turn east on University Dr. The University Dr. ends at an entry of Oakland University (OU). Please do not enter but turn left (north) in front OU on Squirrel Rd. At the first traffic light on Squirrel Rd. turn right (east) on Walton Blvd. Then there are two ways to get to Meadow Brook Hall:

(i)                 Turn right on Festival Dr. with a large poster of Meadow Brook Festival standing in the middle ground. At the stop sign, turn left (east) on Meadow Brook Rd. At the first ‘T’ intersection turn right on Sunset Ln. There are signs for Meadow Brook Hall. Continue to Mansion Dr. and follow the sign of visitor parking in front of Meadow Brook Hall.

(ii)               Turn right (south) on Adam Rd. (pass Festival Dr.) At the 1st traffic light turn right on Meadow Brook Rd. At the first ‘T’ intersection turn left on Sunset Ln. There are signs for Meadow Brook Hall. Continue to Mansion Dr. and follow the sign of visitor parking in front of Meadow Brook Hall.