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Title:

The Moving Interface Problem for Fluid Flow

Speaker:

Prof. James Glimm

Affiliation:

Universiy of Stony Brook

When:

Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 4:30:00 PM   

Where:

Skiles Building, Room 249

Host:

William Wepfer
william.wepfer@me.gatech.edu

Abstract

New technologies have been introduced into the front tracking method to improve its performance in extreme applications, those dominated by a high density of interfacial area. New mathematical theories have been developed to understand the meaning of numerical convergence in this regime. In view of the scientific difficulties of such problems, careful verifaction, validation and uncertainty quantification studies have been conducted. A number of interface dominated flows occur within practical problems of high consequence, and in these cases, we are able to contribute to ongoing scientific studies. We include here turbulent mixing and combustion, chemical processing, design of high energy accelerators, nuclear fusion related studies, studies of nuclear power reactors and studies of flow in porous media. In this lecture, we will review some of the above topics.


Biography

Professor James Glimm is the Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at University of Stony Brook, New York. Prof. Glimm was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1984. He won the National Medal of Science in 2002. From 2007-2009, he served as President of the American Mathematical Society. His other awards, honors, fellowships and memberships include the following: Fellow, SIAM (2009) Steele Prize for a paper of fundamental importance, AMS (1993) Dannie Heineman prize for Mathematical Physics (1980) New York Academy of Science Award in the Physical and Math Sciences (1979) National Science Foundation Fellowship (1959-1960) Guggenheim Fellowships (1963-1964, 1965-1966) Member, National Academy of Sciences Member, American Academy of Arts and Science Glimm has made outstanding contributions to shock wave theory, in which mathematical models are developed to explain natural phenomena that involve intense compression, such as air pressure in sonic booms, crust displacement in earthquakes, and density of material in volcanic eruptions and other explosions. He also has been a leading theorist in operator algebras, partial differential equations, mathematical physics, applied mathematics, and quantum statistical mechanics.