Challenges in Scientific Computing - CISC 2002 : Proceedings of the Conference "Challenges in Scientific Computing", Berlin, October 2-5, 2002

This book is a collection of conference proceedings mainly concerned with the problem class of nonlinear transport/diffusion/reaction systems, chief amongst these being the Navier-Stokes equations, porous-media flow problems and semiconductor-device equations.

Higher Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Flow and Transport in Porous Media.- Macroscopic Models of Fluids with Microstructure.- The Fictitious Boundary Method for the Implicit Treatment of Dirichlet Boundary Conditions with Applications to Incompressible Flow Simulations.- Numerical Simulation of Three Dimensional Free Surface Flows with Bubbles.- A Computational Comparison of Two FEM Solvers for Nonlinear Incompressible Flow.- Algebraic Multigrid for Industrial Semiconductor Device Simulation.- Simulation of Microwave and Semiconductor Laser Structures Including Absorbing Boundary Conditions.- Finite Element Methods for Coupled Problems in Ferrohydrodynamics.- Iterative Substructuring Methods for Advection - Diffusion Problems in Heterogeneous Media.- Efficient Preconditioning of Linear Systems Arising from the Discretization of Radiative Transfer Equation.- On Using Common Lisp for Scientific Computing.- The Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method for Singularly Perturbed Problems.- Black-Box Preconditioning for Mixed Formulation of Self-Adjoint Elliptic PDEs.- Author Index.