Proceedings of the Third German-Italian Symposium Applications of Mathematics in Industry and Technology: June 18-22, 1988 Siena (Under the Auspices o

ISBN-13: 9783519026280 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 349 str.

Vinicio Boffi; Helmut Neunzert

Opis

This volume presents the proceedings of the thira German-Italian Symposium on the Applications of Mathematics in Industry and Technology sponsored mainly by the research foundations of Germany and Italy, DFG and CNR. We had not published the proceedings of the second symposium held in Germany, but are now convinced that a publication would be appreciated by many scientists. The aim we had in mind organizing this symposium and communicating its scientific content was essentially the same as in the previous symposia - we were led by the same scientific and cultural (maybe even political) ideas. The scientific idea is simple: Mathematics becomes a more and more important tool in technology, business and organisatio- but mathematics does not play a corresponding role. The reason is that neither the public opinion nor the mathematicians them selves are really aware of this fact. To show the richness and efficiency of this "industrial raw material" mathematics - at least in some domains - was one subject of the conference. In planning the structure a decision had to be made: If one wishes to present a huge variety of applications of mathematics in very different fields, the participants may loose the track, cannot find any connection with their own field of research in too many lectures; the symposium des integrates like a puzzle into many pieces, which are not easy to be put together again.

Spis treści

I. Fluid Dynamics.- Boltzmann Equation and Rarefied Gas Dynamics.- Nonlinear Stability of Fluid Motions: The Lyapunov Direct Method and its Applications to Natural Convection in a Mixture.- Numerical Analysis of Nonstationary Fluid Flow.- Iteration by Subdomains in Numerical Fluid Dynamics.- The Extended Lifting Line Theory for Systems of Sails.- Scattering Kernel Formulation of Nonlinear Extended Kinetic Theory.- A Horizontally Twodimensional Climate Model.- On the Coupling of Hyperbolic and Parabolic Systems: Analytical and Numerical Approach.- New Contributions to Nonlinear Stability of the Magnetic Benard Problem.- A Criticality Concept for Reaction-Diffusion Systems far from Thermodynamic Equilibrium.- On the Approximation of Continuum Stochastic Systems by a Discrete Stochastic System: A Problem with Moving Boundary.- Numerical Computation of Rarefied Gas Flows.- On the Non-Linear Stability of Parallel Shear Flows.- A Rigorous Onsager-Machlup Formulation of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics.- Constitutive Equations for Masonry-Like Materials.- AMICS: A Multifunctional Assistent for State Accounting Queries.- II. System and Control.- Towards a Theory of Nonlinear Stochastic Systems.- Stochastic Aggregation.- Inverse Problems in Medicine.- Dynamical System Identification from Noisy Data.- Linearization Based on Eigenvalue Estimates.- An Adaptive Linear Approach to Nonlinear Filtering.- Stochastic Filtering in a Reliability Frame.- Numerical Solution of Asymptotic Two-Point Boundary Value Problems with Application to the Swirling Flow over a Plane Disk.- On Equilibrium Points of the Variational Adaptive Control Scheme.