Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 96, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry Series, Vol. 9

In the last week of June 1996 the 9th conference of the European Consortium for Math­ ematics Industry, ECMI 96, took place at the Technical University of Denmark. The present volume of papers is a selection among the almost 200 contributions to the con­ ference. As a logo on the announcements of the conference the organising committee chose a picture of the connection between Denmark and Sweden which is currently under construction. We chose this picture primarily because of the elegant and decorative lines of the bridge, but for other reasons as well: Denmark is a country of islands, and the art of building bridges has a long tradition here. Danish civil engineers have built bridges all over the world and have been rated among the most competent experts in their field. Many have acted as consultants as well as professors at the Technical University of Denmark, and one of them once said: To build a bridge you need steel and mathematics. We think that this selection of papers with its broad spectrum of industrial top­ ics proves that the importance of mathematics is continuously growing. Mathematics has penetrated subjects far beyond traditional engineering applications and in more and more places it becomes natural to add mathematics to the list of things you obviously need to succeed.

Environmental modelling.- A Method of Lines Approach for River Alarm Systems.- The use of bubbles in purification ponds for exhaust gases.- A similarity solution for light oil spreading on groundwater.- Estimation of a low pass filter for solar radiation data.- Propagation of the low-frequency noise generated by power station water-cooling towers.- A Mathematical Model of a Hollow-Fibre Filter.- Railway systems.- A brief survey of wheel-rail contact: Theory, Algorithms, Applications (Invited presentation).- Wear profiles and the dynamical simulation of wheel-rail systems.- Dynamic response of a periodically supported railway track in case of a moving complex phasor excitation.- A mathematical treatise of periodic structures under traveling loads with an application to railway tracks.- The Bifurcation Behaviour of Periodic Solutions of Impact Oscillators.- Industrial processes.- Modelling industrial processes involving infiltration in deformable porous media.- Modelling the Thermal Decomposition of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in an Ideal Turbulent Incinerator.- Mathematical model for isobaric non-isothermal crystallization of polypropylene.- Stochastic modelling and morphological features of polymer crystallization processes.- Mathematical model of Deep-bed Grain Layer Drying by ventilation.- A model of oil Burnout from Glass Fabric.- Computing of the trajectories generated by 2D discrete model approximations of the dynamics of differential linear repetitive processes.- A certain mathematical model of the glass fibre material production.- Electronics, circuits and filters.- Numerical Solutions for the Simulation of Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits.- Symbolic Modelling in Circuit Simulation.- An extended hydrodynamic model for silicon semiconductor devices.- Oscillations of a miniature single stator synchronous motor.- White Noise and Nonlinear Damping in the Two-Dimensional Model of Energy Transfer in Molecular Systems.- Mathematics of Denominator-separable Multidimensional Digital Filters with Application to Image Processing.- Comparison and Assessment of Various Wavelet and Wavelet Packet Based Denoising Algorithms for Noisy Data.- Ship industry.- Hydrodynamic Design of Ship Hull Shapes by Methods of Computational Fluid Dynamics (Invited presentation).- Superplastic Protective Structures.- Trial methods for nonlinear Bernoulli problem.- A Direct (Potential Based) Boundary Element Method for the Lifting Bodies Hydrodynamic Calculation.- Procedure for Free Surface Potential Flow Numerical Simulation around Ship Model Hulls using Finite Element Method (Galerkin Formulation).- Oil industry.- Mathematics for the oil industry: non-mathematical review and views (Invited presentation).- Discretization on general grids for general media.- Identification of Mobilities for the Buckley-Leverett Equation by Front Tracking.- Flow of waxy crude oils.- Modelling of Bending Effects in Oil-Water Microemulsions.- Optimization in industry.- Optimal power dispatch via multistage stochastic programming.- Solving the unit commitment problem in power generation by primal and dual methods.- Optimal Trajectory and Configuration of Commuter Aircraft with Stochastic and Gradient Based Methods.- A general multi-objective optimization program for mixed continuous/integer variables based on genetic algorithms.- The optimization of natural gas liquefaction processes.- Genetic algorithm methodologies for scheduling electricity generation.- Target Zone Models with Price Inertia: A Numerical Solution Method.- Dynamics of machinery.- Model Reduction of Random Vibration Systems.- On Compensation of Vibration of High-Speed Press Automatic Machine.- Identification of External Actions on Dynamic Systems as the Method of Technical Diagnostics.- Fluids in industry.- Capillary effects in thin films.- The Linear Stability of Channel Flow of Fluid with Temperature-Dependent Viscosity.- Adaptive Methods in Internal and External Flow Computations.- Bifurcation, symmetry and parameter continuation in some problems about capillary-gravity waves.- Wacker price.- Evolution of Sedimentation Profiles in the Transport of Coal Water Slurries through a Pipeline.