AMIF-ESF-WORKSHOP

DYNAMICS OF PHASE BOUNDARIES AND NONCLASSICAL WAVES

Kirchzarten(Schwarzwald)

Germany

May 7-9, 2001

Organizing Committee:

Dietmar Kröner (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Philippe G. LeFloch (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
Christian Rohde (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

 

 

 

Content:

 

Topics and Objectives:

Phase transformation problems in liquids or solids represent a challenging and very active field of research in science and engineering. In many cases phase boundaries can be viewed as nonstandard discontinuous solutions of conservation laws. These nonclassical waves have been observed also in the dynamics of reactive media, thin film flow, or magnetohydrodynamics.
The workshop is devoted to analytical, modelling, and numerical aspects in all these applications, emphasizing the common mathematical theory. The main focus will be on propagating phase boundaries in compressible fluid flow and nonlinear elasticity. Key words for the analysis are existence and stability of waves, dissipative models, wellposedness of Riemann, initial value, and initial boundary value problems, for instance. From the numerical point of view we mention Godunov methods, levels set approaches, VOF- or ghost fluid methods.
The invited main speakers are applied mathematicians, physicists, or engineers, leading experts in their field. They will present an overview on their recent research, directed also towards non-specialists. It is the purpose of the meeting to foster the contact between experienced and young researchers.

The workshop is part of the "Applied Mathematics for Industrial Flow Problems" (AMIF) Programme of the European Science Foundation.

 

Invited Speakers:

The following researchers have confirmed to deliver plenary lectures

Andrea L. Bertozzi (Duke University, Durham)
Undercompressive shocks in driven films

Andrea Corli (Universita di Bari)
Sonic Phase Transitions and Chapman-Jouguet Detonations

Heinrich Freistühler (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig)
Stability of undercompressive and overcompressive shocks

S.L. Gavrilyuk (Université d'Aix-Marseille)
Mechanics of Fluids with Inertia Effects

James K. Knowles (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)
Continuum-mechanical models of phase-transforming solids and related issues

Philippe G. LeFloch (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
Nonclassical shock waves and kinetic relations

Ralph Menikoff (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos)
Compaction Waves in a Granular Bed

Phoebus Rosakis (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Dynamic morphology evolution in twinning and phase transitions

 

Schedule:

Begin May, 7 at 9:00h
End May, 9 at 13:00h


Financial Support:

ESF-Programme ''Applied Mathematics for Industrial Flow Problems'' (AMIF)

DFG-Schwerpunkt ''Analysis und Numerik für Erhaltungsgleichungen''(ANumE)

DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Nichtlineare Differentialgleichungen"

 

Call for contributions and applications:

The program of the workshop will include the plenary lectures and (at most ten) 35-minutes contributed lectures. Prospective participants are encouraged to present their research results in the contributed sessions. They are kindly requested to send a short abstract (approx. 200 words) of their talk. The organizing committee will then decide about acceptance. For young researchers, partial financial support is available. Those who wish to apply for support must do so explicitly on the application form. The total number of participants is limited to 40.

 

Registration and conference fee:

For registration please click here.

Participants are advised to make hotel reservations together with the registration. The workshop fee is DM 150.- payable at the registration desk. It includes lunch (3x), dinner (2x), and refreshments.

We can handle the hotel reservation only for you if you registrate until March 31.
For later reservation please contact the tourist information in Kirchzarten by yourself.
(Here you can find a hotel list in German.)

 

Location:

Kirchzarten is a small Black Forest town in the valley of the river Dreisam. It can be reached in twenty minutes by train from Freiburg. http://www.dreisamtal.de or http://www.freiburg.de)

The workshop will take place in the "Kurhaus":

Dietenbacherstr. 22
79199 Kirchzarten
Tel: 07661/5223

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workshop location consult
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Click here for a timetable of the german railway from Freiburg to Kirchzarten on May, 6

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Contact address:

Institut für Angewandte Mathematik
Albert-Ludwigs-Universiät Freiburg
Hermann-Herder-Strasse 10
D-79104 Freiburg i. Br., Germany
Telephone: +49-761-203-5650
Fax: +49-761-203-5632

E-Mail: pb@mathematik.uni-freiburg.de

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