Overview
In this book, the contributors to the sixth international conference on this subject consider the computational modelling of a continuum, where the positions of its borders or interphase boundaries have to be determined as part of the solution. Designed to establish interdisciplinary links between scientists and engineers who tackle similar problems from different research perspectives, and scientists who work on different applications using similar numerical methods, the volume covers various aspects of fundamentals, numerical methods and applications. The conference was held held in Lemnos, Greece, May 9-11, 2001.Synopsis
This book contains the papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Computational Modelling of Free and Moving Boundary Problems, held in Slovenia, June 30-July 2,1999.
The classification 'free boundary problem' or 'moving boundary problem' can be applied to a wide variety of problems in the physical sciences, technology and engineering. The feature all these problems have in common is the presence, in the mathematical model, of an initially unknown (free) boundary or a boundary which moves throughout the analysis, the determination of which is an important part of the solution procedure. Practical examples are ingot solidification and scrap melting in metallurgy, free surface flows in hydraulics and fluid mechanics, the cooling and freezing of foodstuffs in the food industry, to name but a few. Although completely different in nature, these problems have several common features regarding their mathematical modeling and computational methods of solution. Only in special cases can problems of this type be solved analytically. Therefore a new scientific discipline of approximate and numerical methods for such problems has evolved. Recent advances in this wide and rapidly growing discipline are reported in this volume.
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Papers presented at the June-July 1999 meeting consider a range of problems involving changing shape or related to the position of an interphase boundary. The papers are organized into five categories: solidification and melting, stress and deformation, free surface flow, numerical methods, and multi-phase flow. No subject index. Distributed by Computational Mechanics, Inc. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)