Applications of High-performance Computing in Engineering

Section 1: Applications in Parallel Computing -A parallel Laplace transform method for diffusion problems with discontinuous boundary conditions; Three-dimensional simulations of spiral waves in reacting and diffusing media on DSM computers; Exploiting parallelism in general purpose optimization; Free upgrade of computer power with JAVA, web-base technology and parallel computing; A parallel material-point method with application to 3D solid mechanics; Identifying performance bottlenecks in a radiative transfer application; Parallelization of fast Fourier transforms; Implementation issues for a parallel Psuedo-Search Engine Indexer using MPI and Genetic Programming; The interfacial behavior of liquid water near hydrophobic surfaces: a parallel force decomposition molecular dynamics code; The quest for a high performance Boltzmann transport solver; Application of parallel computing to gravity field recovery from satellite gravity gradiometric data; Euclidean invariant computation of stochastic completion fields using shiftable-twistable wavelets. Section 2: Parallel Finite and Boundary Elements - A parallel multipolar BEM approach for Neumann interior Stokes flow; Efficient propagation of moment tensors in multipole-accelerated parallel BEM; Viscoelastic torsion under piezoelectric control - analytical and massively parallel computational simulations and performance evaluations; Structural optimization using parallel GA; MISER (Michigan soil-vapor extraction remediation model): development of a parallel environmental remediation application code. Section 3: Algorithms for Parallelisation - Synthetic methodologies for an optimal time-space algorithm complexity distribution; Efficient broadcasting in an arrangement graph using multiple spanning trees; Partitioning and mapping nested loops on multicomputers; A generalized fault-tolerant sorting algorithm on product network; Processor-time optimal systolic matrix multiplication; New structure for rolling mapping. Section 4: Application of Neural Computing - NN-modelling for nonlinear functions approximations; Neurochip architectural design for pattern recognition and classification; Data mining high performance computing using neural networks. Section 5: Performance and Benchmarking - A case study on the importance of compiler and other optimizations for improving super-scalar processor performance; High performance computing using AUTODYN-3D; Parallel performance and benchmarking of the CE-QUAL-ICM family of three-dimensional water quality models. Section 6: Applications in Fluid Flow - Massively parallel boundary integral element method modeling of particles in low-Reynolds number Newtonian fluid flows; A parallel domain decomposition iteration scheme for a free boundary problem; Parallel overlapping-mesh algorithm; Parallel simulation of three-dimensional free-surface fluid flow problems; Direct numerical simulation of lid-driven cavity flow within a 3D inhomogeneous domain on an NEC-SX4 supercomputer; Distributed particle simulation of flow in complex geometries. Section 7: Distributed Computer Systems and Networking - Distributed deep processing; Computational performance and scalability of large distributed enterprise-wide systems supporting engineering, manufacturing and business applications; The BORG distributed architecture for high-performance computing. Section 8: Further Applications in Computational Science - Using explicit preconditioned domain decomposition methods for solving singular perturbed linear problems; Modelling and simulation of capillary driven flows in microfluidic system components; Investigation of lossless transmission lines by time-domain analysis; A novel neural network technique for the detection of human faces in visual scenes; A symbolic solver based software for wind field evaluation in complex coastal areas; Explicit approximate inverse finite element preconditioning for solving biharmonic equations; A framework for data mining and information retrieval on the Internet; Virtual laboratories for analysis and design of civil engineering structures.