Dynamics of Phase Boundaries
and Nonclassical Waves
Kirchzarten, May 7-9, 2001




Program






Sunday, May 6, 2001


18:00-20:00     :     Registration and welcome at the conference location Kurhaus
20:00     :     joint dinner







Monday, May 7, 2001


9:00-9:05 : Opening
9:05-9:55 : James K. Knowles California Institute of Technology,
    Pasadena
    Continuum-mechanical models of phase-transforming
    solids and related issues. Lecture I
10:00-10:50 : Heinrich Freistühler, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics
    in the Sciences, Leipzig
    Stability of undercompressive shocks.
10:50 : Coffee break and Registration
11:20-12:10 : Andrea Corli, Universita di Bari
    Sonic Phase Transitions and Chapman-Jouguet Detonations.
12:30 : Lunch
14:30-15:20 : Andrea L. Bertozzi, Duke University, Durham
    Undercompressive shocks in driven films I:
    Experiments, mathematical model, and numerical computations.
15:25-16:15 : S. L. Gavrilyuk, Université d'Aix Marseille
    Mechanics of fluids with inertia effects.
16:15 : Coffee break
16:45-17:20 : Kerstin Wielage, Universität Paderborn
    Drop simulations of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids.
17:25-18:00 : Lidia Klassen, Universität Freiburg
    On the Rayleigh-Taylor instability and transition
    from nucleate to film boiling.
19:00 : Dinner







Tuesday, May 8, 2001


9:00-9:50 : James K. Knowles California Institute of Technology,
    Pasadena
    Continuum-mechanical models of phase-transforming
    solids and related issues. Lecture II
9:55-10:45 : Phoebus Rosakis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
    Dynamic morphology evolution in twinning and phase transitions.
10:45 : Coffee break
11:15-11:50 : Johannes Zimmer, Technische Universität, München
    On some three-dimensional nonlinear thermoviscoelastic models
    for phase transitions in shape memory alloys.
11:55-12:30 : Shaoqiang Tang, Universität Konstanz
    Discrete BGK approximations for dynamic phase transitions.
12:30 : Lunch
14:30-15:20 : Heinrich Freistühler, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics
    in the Sciences, Leipzig
    Stability of overcompressive shocks.
15:25-16:00 : Jean-Francois Coulombel, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
    Linear stability of subsonic phase transitions
    in a van-der-Waals fluid.
16:00 : Coffee break
16:30-17:05 : Wlodzimierz Domanski, Polish Academy of Sciences
    Simplified asymptotic models for weakly nonlinear nonclassical
    waves with applications to elastodynamics.
17:10-17:45 : Kestitutis Staliunas, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt,
    Braunschweig
    Phase domains and phase solitons in nonlinear optical systems.
17:50-18:25 : Ulrich Weikard, Universität Bonn
    The Cahn-Hilliard equation with elasticity.
19:00 : Dinner







Wednesday, May 9, 2001


9:00-9:50 : Andrea L. Bertozzi, Duke University, Durham
    Undercompressive shocks in driven films II:
    Existence, bifurcations, and stability of traveling waves.
9:50-10:25 : Andreas Münch, Technische Universität München
    The thickness of a Marangoni-driven thin
    liquid film emerging from a meniscus.
10:25 : Coffee break
11:00-11:50 : Ralph Menikoff, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Compaction waves in a granular bed.
12:00 : Closing
12:10 : Lunch