Program overview

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 26 AUGUST 1997

Session H1. Materials Modeling I.

Tuesday afternoon, 13:30, Room 1, Classroom Unit

H1.01
13:42 H1.02 Determining Macroscopic Material Properties From Mesoscopic Simulations
J.B. Aidun, C.S. Lo, T.G. Trucano (Sandia National Laboratories)
13:54 H1.03 A Mesoscopic Approach of Dislocation Dynamics and Mechanical Response of BCC (Ta) Single Crystals
Meijie Tang (H-Div., Pamp; ST, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
14:30 H1.04 Frenkel-Kontorova Molecular Dynamics Model for Strained Heteroepitaxial Film Growth
John Hamilton (Sandia National Laboratory)
14:42 H1.05 Modeling Void Nucleation in Metals at High Strain-rates
J. Belak, G.S. Bales, J. Glosli (University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551)
14:54 H1.06 Vibrational Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Systems with Reduced Symmetry
Talat S. Rahman, Abdelkader Kara (Kansas State University)

Session H2. Shocks, Constitutive Equations.

Tuesday afternoon, 13:30, Room 150, Stevenson

13:30 H2.01 3D High-Resolution Simulations of Shock-Turbulence Interaction and Richtmyer-Meshkov Mixing
R. H. Cohen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
14:06 H2.02 Computations of Shock Wave Reflections from the Ramps
W.H. Lee, P. Blewett (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
14:18 H2.03 Adaptive Chebyshev Pseudospectral Method on Solving One--Dimensional Shock Wave Problem
Allen Tzyy-Leng Horng (Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan)
14:30 H2.04 A Kinetic Theory Based Numerical Scheme for the Solution of Relativistic Hydrodynamic Equations
Ramesh K. Agarwal, Ramesh Balakrishnan (Wichita State University)
14:42 H2.05 Thermodynamically Consistent Monotone Interpolation of Equation-of-State Tables
Dennis Maiden (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
14:54 H2.06 Analytic Nonlinear Constitutive Equations for Gases
Patricio Cordero (Departamento de Física, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile), Dino Risso (Departamento de Física, Universidad del Biobío, Concepción, Chile)

Session H3. Monte Carlo I.

Tuesday afternoon, 13:30, Room 2, Classroom Unit

13:30 H3.01 Magnetization Switching in Anisotropic Nanoscale Ferromagnets: Algorithms and Applications
Mark Novotny (Florida State University)
14:06 H3.02 The Enhanced Hoshen-Kopelman Algorithm for Cluster Analysis
Joseph Hoshen (Cluster Analysis Technologies)
14:18 H3.03 Prediction of Protein-DNA binding by Monte Carlo method
Yuefan Deng, Moises Eisenberg, Alex Korobka (SUNY Stony Brook)
14:30 H3.04 Monte Carlo Simulation of Comptonization in Inhomogeneous Media
Xin-Min Hua (GSFC/NASA, USRA)
14:42 H3.05 A New Hybrid Algorithm: Navier-Stokes as a DSMC Filter
Choong K. Oh, Elaine S. Oran (NRL)
14:54 H3.06 Simulation of hot--optical--phonon effects on electron relaxation in a AlGaAs/GaAs quantum cascade laser structure
G. Paulavicius, V. Mitin (Wayne State University, Detroit), M. A. Stroscio (U. S. Army Research Office)

Session H4. Quantum Computing & Field Theory.

Tuesday afternoon, 13:30, Room 175, Stevenson

13:30 H4.01 From gauge transformations to topology computation in quantum lattice gas automata
David A. Meyer (UCSD)
H4.02
13:54 H4.03 Spectral properties of finite two dimensional quantum dot arrays.
Ernesto Cota (Lab. Ensenada, Instituto de Física-UNAM, México), Felipe Ramírez (CICESE, México), Sergio E. Ulloa (Ohio University, Athens, OH)
H4.04
14:18 H4.05 Fast associative memory + slow neural circuitry = the computational model of the brain.
Simon Berkovich (GWU), Efraim Berkovich (UMD), Gennady Lapir (Heitmann)
14:30 H4.06 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Quantum Field Theory
Claudio Rebbi (Physics Department - Boston University)