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CTAC2004

The 12th Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference

27 September - 1 October 2004

The University of Melbourne
Victoria Australia

Final Programme

The conference program will consist of six keynote addresses by significant international and local invited speakers and four parallel sessions comprising approximately 100 contributed talks over three days from Monday 27th September to Wednesday 29th September 2004. Contributions can also be made by poster presentation.

All theatres are fully equipped with audio visual facilities including O/H projectors, data projectors, DVD/CD/VHS players, PC & Mac, whiteboard and slide projector. If you have further questions about AV available please email ctac-2004@unimelb.edu.au.

Contributed paper presentations will be 20 minutes including questions while keynote presentations will be 55 minutes including questions.

Workshops will be held on Thursday 30 September and Friday 1 October 2004.

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Sunday 26 September

1730 to 1930

Welcome Reception & Registration **NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE** Rydges Carlton Hotel 701 Swanston Street, Carlton

Monday 27 September

0800	Registration (Arts Hall)
0900	Opening (PLT) Professor Jannie van Deventer Dean Of Engineering
0930	Gary Leal (PLT) Computational Studies in Materials Research Chair: David Boger
1025	Morning Tea (Arts Hall)
	PLT		Theatre A		Theatre B		Theatre D
Chair	Gary Leal		Lutz Gross		Rolf Jeltsch		Ian Turner
	Droplets		Parallel algorithms		CFD modelling I		PDE algorithms
1100	Tsai Axisymmetric thermocapillary motion of a deformable fluid droplet in an insulated tube.		Coope A parallel Jacobi algorithm for derivative-free optimisation on parallel or distributed processors.		Xiao CFD prediction of fire-induced hot gases in buildings.		F. Liu Analysis of a discrete non-Markovian random walk approximation for the time fractional diffusion equation.
1120	Harvie A numerical parametric study of droplet deformation through a microfluidic contraction.		Hardy Parallel realisation of monotone domain decomposition algorithms for nonlinear reaction-diffusion problems.		H. Li The three-dimensional CFD analysis of flow behaviours in a complex twin-screw supercharger.		Mustapha A fully discrete quadrature method for quasi-linear hyperbolic problems.
1140	Davidson Flow focusing in microchannels.		Leak Optimisation of a spline-based Eulerian-Lagrangian transport solver.		Erakovic CFD Modelling of slasher with single and double counter rotating blades using sliding mesh technique.		Shen Error analysis of an explicit finite difference approximation for the space fractional diffusion equation with insulated ends.
1200	Rosengarten Using CFD to study the effect of contact angle on microdroplet deformation.		Kartawidjaja Performance of a parallel technique for solving stiff ODEs using an implicit Runge-Kutta method.		Madhan Weight reduction of radial fan impeller using ANSYS.		Jalil On Hamiltonian circuited solvers for elliptic partial differential equations.
1220	Lunch
1330	Robert Anderssen (PLT) Inverse Problems: A Pragmatist's Approach to the Recovery of Information from Indirect Measurements Chair: Mike Osborne
	PLT	Theatre A		Theatre B		Theatre D
Chair	Lance Bode	Stephen Roberts		Ravi Prakash		Ian Coope
	Porous Media	Optimisation		Biological modelling I		HPC
1425	Read Series solutions for steady seepage in three dimensional aquifers.	Osborne Polyhedral function constrained optimization problems.		Haji Modelling the rheology of muscle contraction using a Kohlrausch function.		Sinclair HPC guided geometric optimisation of turbulent airflow.
1445	Lobo A boundary element method for infiltration from irrigation channels in a soil with impermeable inclusions.	Yeh A hybrid quasi Monte Carlo method for estimating the reliability of the multistate-node acyclic network.		Watanabe Numerical study on microbial depolymerizaion process of exogenous type.		Quenette An investigation into design for code maintainability in HPC.
1505	Knight Using multipole solutions to compute linearised steady soil water flow around systems of obstacles.	Price Direct search optimisation methods using grids and frames.				Gross Software infrastructure for solving non-linear partial differential equations and its application to modeling crustal fault systems.
1525	Afternoon Tea (Arts Hall) The following POSTER SESSION will be held during Afternoon Tea in ARTS HALL: Coates The use of Discrete Element Method (DEM) modelling to study the de-agglomeration of pharmaceutical dry powders for inhalation. Wolynec The molecular orbitals of the open-shell system of the methyl free radical as determined by dual space analysis. Laureano Using meta-inference with Prolog to preserve accuracy in numerical equation solving.
	PLT	Theatre A		Theatre B		Theatre D
Chair	Tsemin Tsai	John Belward		Wayne Read		Gary Rosengarten
	Fluid interface algorithms	Function approximation I		Environment modelling		Droplets & acoustics
1555	H. Tang A multiphase tracking method for modelling the interfacial flow of two immiscible liquids in mixing process.	Hegland Additive models in high dimensions.		Sampson Modelling the effect of proposed channel deepening on the tides in Port Phillip Bay.		Oberman Drying of a liquid droplet suspended in its own vapour.
1615	Walkley Adaptive finite element simulation of three-dimensional surface-tension-dominated free-surface flow problems.	Stals Discrete thin plate splines.		Lee Numerical solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for shallow water flows.		Brett Numerical investigation of acoustic waves scattering off a circular cylinder.
1635	Harvie An analysis of parasitic current generation in Volume of Fluid simulations.			Tularam An assessment of the capability of finite element solvers in simulating saltwater intrusion.		Khaleghi Comparison of various droplet break-up models in gas-liquid flows.
Sponsor Session (PLT) – Chair: Bill Appelbe
1700	IBM (Gold Sponsor)
1730	CRAY
1800	Free Drinks (Arts Hall)

Tuesday 28 September

0900	Paul MacKerras (PLT) Linux on PowerPC Chair: Bill Appelbe
0955	Mark Cross (PLT) A Perspective on the Current Status of the Challenges in the Computational Modelling of Fluids Interacting with other Physical Phenomena Chair: Malcolm Davidson
1050	Morning Tea (Arts Hall)
	PLT	Theatre A	Theatre B	Theatre D
Chair	Steven Carnie	Dalton Harvie	Wei-Chang Yeh	Carsten Fredericksen
	Industrial modelling	Multiphase/multi-physics	Algorithms I	Data analysis
1120	A. Khan Numerical modeling of the effect of operating parameters in the plastic blown film process.	Slone A novel approach to a complex multi-physics problem- high speed impact.	Donoho A fast wavelet algorithm for image deblurring.	Donovan Visualising energy data.
1140	Tarnopolskaya Instability in lateral dynamics of a metal strip in cold rolling.	Muthuswamy Bridging the gap between discrete and continuum simulations of particulate solids.	Muradova Numerical technique for some linear and nonlinear eigenvalue problems in the theory of elasticity.	Smith Propellor blade signatures in the wavelet domain.
1200	Ooi Coupled nonlinear oscillations of microbubbles.	A. Roberts Higher order accuracy in the gap-tooth scheme for large scale solutions using microscopic simulators.	L. Zhang A new adaptive GMRES(m) algorithm with correction.	Taylor The optimal sample length to use when calculating transfer functions from discrete experimental data.
1220		Walsh The thermomechanical formulation of finite element schemes for micropolar continua.	Stokes Incomplete Uzawa methods applied to both FEM and SPH solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations.	Maindonald Using cross-validation to avoid selection bias in the graphical representation of high-dimensional data.
1240	Lunch
1340	Chaoqun Liu (PLT) High Performance Computation for DNS/LES Chair: Jiyuan Tu
	PLT	Theatre A	Theatre B	Theatre D
Chair	Yury Stepanyants	Gennadiy Nikishkov	Markus Hegland	Mark Walkley
	CFD applications I	Transport solvers I	Function approximation II	Thin films
1435	Tian Large eddy simulation indoor airflow and contaminant concentration.	Moroney A new finite volume method incorporating radial basis functions for simulating diffusion.	J.Belward On estimating errors for gradient approximations in surface interpolation.	Bennett Interior layer structure in the Newtonian blown film.
1455	Gollan Computations of radiating expansion tube flows for simulation of planetary entry.	Resnyansky Use of Riemann solvers for multi-phase modelling.	S. Roberts Dimensional data fitting using sparse grid functions.	Carnie Modelling of drop-drop interactions in an Atomic Force Microscope.
1515	Troxler Inverse aerodynamic shape design of gas turbine blades.		Ilic Approximating functions of a large sparse positive definite matrix function using a spectral splitting method.	Momoniat Lie group analysis and numerical solutions of thin film flow driven by gravity, surface tension and surface shear.
1535	Afternoon Tea (Arts Hall)
Chair	Denis Evans	Masaji Watanabe		Nick Stokes
	Computational chemistry	Biological modelling II		Series solutions
1605	J. Zhang Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of transport properties for inhomogeneous fluids.	Tan A numerical simulation of avascular tumour growth.		S.Belward Update schemes enhancing stability and effciency of series solution methods to subcritical flow over topography.
1625	Sunthar A successive fine graining approach for predicting the rheological properties of a dilute polymer solution.	Ruengsakulrach Steady and unsteady blood flow simulations in the mouse aortic arch.		Higgins Generating series solutions to flow over topography in real time.
1645	Prabhakar Fast and accurate mesoscale models of dilute polymer solutions.
1705	CTAC Annual General Meeting (Theatre A)
1900 for 1930	Conference Dinner (University House)

Wednesday 29 September

0900	Denis Evans (PLT) The Fluctuation Theorem: Simulation, Theory and Experiment Chair: Derek Chan
	PLT	Theatre A	Theatre B		Theatre D
Chair	Peter Jacobs	Bevan Thompson	Shaun Belward		Steven Armfield
	CFD applications II	Numerical linear algebra	Algorithms II		Misc. fluid flow
0955	B. Tang Simulation of a turbulent premixed open v-shaped flame using contour advection with surgery.	N. Li Some remarks on the inverse eigenvalue problem for real symmetric Toeplitz matrices.	Sneddon The method of particular solutions for the Helmholtz equation.		Griffith The effect of semi-circular blockages on the laminar two-dimensional flow between two flat plates.
1015	Mirzaei Drag optimization for axisymetric afterbodies with jet plume using CFD.	Wood Alternative methods for identication of an M-matrix.	Tenne Approximate solvers combining Gaussian elimination and the conjugate directions algorithm.		Virahsawmy Computation of flow behind three side-by-side cylinders of unequal spacing.
1035	Yeoh Flow instability prediction in low-pressure subcooled boiling flows using CFD codes.	Kentaro A new scheme of computing the preconditioner for the Schur-complements.	McBain Two-point boundary value problems, Green's functions and product integration.		Yazdi Pressure-velocity coupled finite volume solution of steady inviscid flow using articial compressibility technique.
1055	Morning Tea (Arts Hall)
Chair	Fawang Liu	Robert Anderssen	Anatoly Resnyansky		Mark Cross
	Transport solvers II	Inverse problems	Structural modelling		CFD modelling II
1125	Armfield A comparison of staggered and non-staggered grid Navier-Stokes solutions for the 8:1 cavity natural convection flow.	Blyth Sloan iteration and Richardson extrapolation for Walsh series solutions of integral equations.	Ngo Finite element analysis of wing-engine assembly.		Leahy A 2-dimensional CFD model for heap bioleaching of copper-sulphides.
1145	Ivers A spectral method for solution of the heat equation in spheroidal geometries.	J. Liu An adjoint approach for a variational method for numerical differentiation.	Gershkovich The identification of vibration modes with closely spaced frequencies from experimental data.		Crawford Influence of bottom boundary conditions for temperature on the heat distribution within oxidising heaps.
1205	Nikishkov Finite element algorithm with adaptive quadtree-octree mesh refinement.	Andrew Asymptotic correction and inverse eigenvalue problems.	Mahmud The development of computational model in performing mode of failure analysis on composite plates.		Date Optimising the design of a centrifugal reaction turbine rotor using CFD(Fluent).
1225	Ramezani A fast implicit method for numerical simulation of compressible flow on unstructured grids.	Anderson Regularisation functionals for a class of inverse problems in rough surface scattering.	Kuntjoro Computer program development of truss structural configuration optimisation.
1245	Lunch
	PLT	Theatre A	Theatre B		Theatre D
Chair	Tony Roberts	David Smith	Bill Blyth		Chaoqun Liu
	Model selection	Geophysical fluids	Long time integration		DNS
1345	Prvan Thin film models in a stochastic setting.	Frederiksen A method for extracting coupled patterns of predictable and chaotic components of covariability in pairs of climate variables.	Grazier Long simulations of the solar system: Brouwer's Law and chaos.		O'Neill DNS study of the tropology of forced isotropic turbulence with passive scalar transport.
1405	Hudson A quasi-random approach to fitting hereditary tree models to DNA data.	O'Kane The statistical dynamics of nonlinear wave-turbulence interactions in two-dimensional barotropic flow.	Tse Can classical methods be volume preserving?		Soria Examination of optical experimental fluid mechanics methodologies using direct numerical simulation of turbulence data.
1425	Mouser Comparing genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimisation for an inverse problem exercise.	Thompson Kotz type innovations in autoregressive modeling of meteorological series.	Grazier Brouwer's law is attainable.		Wissink Separating, transitional flow affected by various inflow oscillation regimes.
1445	Booth Simulation and modelling of gene switches.	Bode Nonlinear extension to a reef parameterisation scheme.	Grimm Geometric integrators that conserve Lyapunov functions.		Palymskiy Direct numerical simulation of turbulent Benard convection.
1505	Afternoon Tea (Arts Hall)
	PLT	Theatre A		Theatre B		Theatre D
Chair	Jan Wissink	Rob May		Andrew Ooi		John Knight
	Spectral elements			Particulate flows
1535	Stewart Energy and wake transitions of an oscillating cylinder in low Reynolds number flow.	Lesmono Optimal strategies in political election.		M. Khan Dispersion of particles injected through an impinging vertical round jet.		Vijayan Performance analysis of vapour compression refrigeration system and the design of heat exchanger accumulator.
1555	Sheard Computing the flow past a cylinder with free hemisperical ends.	Abelman Angular deviation of light rays that emerge from optometric prism: near linear behaviour of nonlinear phenomena.		Kuan CFD simulation of dilute particulate flows with different solid size distributions on a curved 90 degree duct bend.		Lu A hybrid two-dimension DP and DDDP for the daily optimal operation in the Three-Gorges cascaded hydroelectric systems.
1615	Fitzgerald Vortex breakdown state selection as a metastable process.	Stokes The role of contour integration and recurrence relations in rapid evaluation of integral transforms.		M. Khan Entrainment behaviour of particles induced by a liquid film developed on a half-submerged rotary drum.
1635	Leontini Modelling vortex-induced vibration with multi-frequency oscillation at low Reynolds number.	Sudharsan Non-linear interaction of gravity waves with an underwater elastic structure.
1655	Close (PLT)

 

WORKSHOPS

Thursday 30 September

Complex Fluids Seminar Room, ICT Building Convenor:  Malcolm Davidson, Steven Carnie

8.30 - 9.00 Registration 9.00 Programme begins Roger Tanner - Aspects of Computing with High Viscoelasticity Derek Chan - Effective simulation methods for highly charged polymers 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break Murray Rudman - Modelling of multi-phase systems with complex interfaces 12.30-13.30 Lunch Justin Cooper-White - Simple' fluids in 'simple' flows: drop formation, deformation and impact on solid surfaces J. Ravi Prakash - Unravelling the dynamics of polymer solutions in extensional flows 15.30-16.00 Coffee Break Malcolm Davidson - Pendant drop formation of shear thinning and yield stress fluids 17.00 Close

 

High Performance Computing Lecture Theatre, ICT Building Convenor:  Bill Appelbe

8.30 - 9.00 Registration 9.00 Programme begins Traditional scientic computing was done using hand-written Fortran or Cprograms, running on a single processor. Over the past few years,scientific computing has evolved rapidly in both hardware, software, andtools. This workshop will discuss the current state of the art inscientific computing, emerging trends, and our experiences in scientificsoftware development at VPAC over the past 5 years. The workshop will bedivide into 4 sections. Sections will be given by one or more VPAC staff. Each section will include time for open discussion and attendees to shareexperiences 9.00 - 12.00 Sections 1 & 2 (coffee break 10.30 - 11.00) Hardware, Operating Systems, and Grid Computing - Processors: from Intel, AMD, IBM, SUN, and Cray; relativeperformance - Clusters vs Shared Memory Multiprocessors - The re-emergence of vector processors - Operating systems - LINUX vs the rest - Schedulers - PBS, Torque, and others - Grid computing - when is it effective, and will it ever become mainstream Parallel Programmming - Design and Implementation - Common pitfalls in writing parallel programs - Designing and tuning parallel programs - MPI vs OpenMP - Debugging and maintaining parallel programs - regression and unittesting and scripting 12.00 - 13.30 Lunch 13.30 - 16.30 Sections 3 & 4 (coffee break 15.00 - 15.30) Software Libraries and Tools - PETSc and other libraries - Version control and configuration management - Documentation and collaboration tools: doxygen, and wiki pages - Visulization tools and libraries Software Packages (primarily CFD) - Trends in CFD tools and packages - CFP packages compared - Fluent, StarCD, and CFX - Common pitfalls using CFD tools - Meshing, and meshing tools

 

Friday 1 October

Solidification and Melting Lecture Theatre, ICT Building Convenor:  Mohammed El Ganaoui, Graham de Vahl Davis, Eddie Leonardi

8.00 - 8.30 Registration 8.30 - 9.00 Introduction of the workshop Graham de Vahl Davis, Eddie Leonardi, Mohammed El Ganaoui 9.00 - 10.30 Session 1: Microgravity research and applications Chair: Graham de Vahl Davis 9.00 Keynote : French micro-gravity program: experiments and models Roger Prud'homme. Laboratoire de Modélisation en Mécanique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS-France. 9.50 Facility Overview and Current Research Programs at the Phenomena in Microgravity Laboratory. T. Steinberg, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 10.10 An experimental and numerical study of smoke movement in a simple enclosure, under micro-gravity conditions. T. Barber, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 - 12.30 Session 2: Transport phenomena and phase change Chair: Eddie Leonardi 11.00 Keynote : Dynamical interaction of fluid flow in the formation of interface microstructure in directional solidification of alloys. N. Bergeon, B. Billia, N. Mangelinck, H. Nguyen Thi, G. Reinhart and C. Weiss. L2MP, CNRS UMR 6137, University Aix-Marseille III, Marseille, France. 11.50 Convection and Phase change modelling in microchannels. R. Bennacer and M. El Ganaoui, University de Cergy-Pontoise, University of Limoges France. 12.10 Casting Simulations Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: Recent Advances and Future Directions. M. Prakash, P. Cleary and J. Ha, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 - 15.30 Session 3: Morphological growth and minor effects Chair: Mohammed El Ganaoui 14.00 Keynote : Convective patterns on columnar or equiaxed dendritic structures during directional solidification of Al based alloys relevance of microgravity experiments. M.D. Dupouy. EPM/CNRS/INPG, BP 95 38402 ST Martin d'Hères, France. 14.50 Thermosolutal convection during melting in a porous media saturated with aqueous solution. F. Oueslati, G. R. Vieira, H. Sammouda and R. Bennacer. L.E.T.T.M, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisia. Catholic University of Petropolis - Brazil and University de Cergy-Pontoise, France.15.10 Analytical study of the thermo transport (Soret effect) during the transient, diffusion controlled directional solidification. R. Bennacer, University de Cergy-Pontoise, France. 15.10 Analytical study of the thermo transport (Soret effect) during the transient, diffusion controlled directional solidification. R. Bennacer, University de Cergy-Pontoise, France 15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break 16.00 - 17.00 Session 3: Round table discussion on Australasian/Europe collaboration

 

Dispersed Multiphase Flows Seminar Room, ICT Building Convenor:  Jiyuan Tu
8.30 - 9.00	Registration and welcome
9.00 - 10.00	"Fundamentals of numerically modeling particle-laden multiphase flows" By Professor Mark Cross, University of Greenwich
10.00 - 11.00	"Numerically modeling of gas-liquid flows with or without heat and mass transfer" By Guan Yeoh, ANSTO
11.00 - 11.30	Morning Tea
11.30 - 12.30	"CFD modeling of industrial multiphase flows" By Dr Phil Schwarz, CSIRO
12.30 - 2.00	Lunch
2.00 - 3.00	"Modeling of dispersed multiphase flows in other applications" By Associate Professor Jiyuan Tu, RMIT University
3.00 - 3.30	Afternoon Tea
3.30 - 5.00	Panel discussion - Issues and Perspectives "Numerical modeling of dispersed multiphase flows and experimental validation" Coordinator: Dr Jiyuan Tu Professor Mark Cross, Dr Guan Yeoh, Dr Phil Schwarz, Dr William Yang
3.40 - 4.00	Guest Speaker Experimental modeling of dispersed multiphase flows for CFD validation By Dr William Yang, CSRIO
5.00	Close

 

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Proceedings

A refereed proceedings will be published after the conference in the Electronic Supplement of the ANZIAM Journal (http://anziamj.austms.org.au/).

Acceptance of papers for inclusion in the proceedings will be determined by peer review.

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Computational Mathematics Group
of the Australian Mathematics Society