1998 SIAM Annual Meeting Minisymposium on Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)

Minisymposium: Analysis, Computation, and Control of MHD Flows (1998 SIAM Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, July 13--17, 1998)

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is the theory of the macroscopic interaction of electrically conducting fluids with a magnetic field. It is of importance in connection with many engineering problems and in geophysics and astronomy. Much research has been devoted to the physical modeling and computational simulation of MHD-dominated processes, but there is still a shortage of general analytical, numerical, and computational methods. By bringing together researchers from different disciplines, this minisymposium will provide a forum for the discussion of new approaches to the mathematical analysis, the numerical computation, and the control of MHD flows as they arise in various fields of application.

List of Speakers

• Michel Crouzeix (University of Rennes I): "Bidimensional approximation of a liquid metal free surface problem"



• P. A. Davidson (University of Cambridge): "Role of angular momentum in MHD turbulence"



• Nagy El-Kaddah (University of Alabama): "Analytical and numerical analysis of the MHD flow around a sphere in crossed electric and magnetic fields"



• Vladimir Galindo (Forschungszentrum Rossendorf): "Numerical studies on crystal growth melt flow control using different magnetic fields"



• Clinton Groth (University of Michigan): "A parallel adaptive high-resolution scheme for MHD with applications in space plasma physics"



• George Karniadakis (Brown University): "A discontinuous Galerkin method for the MHD equations"



• Linda D. Kral (Washington University): "Simulation of boundary layer control using the Lorentz force"



• A. J. Meir (Auburn University): "Numerical analysis and simulation of viscous incompressible MHD flow"



• René Moreau (CNRS): "MHD turbulent shear flows: modelling versus experiment"



• Gerd Mutschke (Forschungszentrum Rossendorf): "Bluff body wake control by magnetic fields"



• S. S. Ravindran (NASA Langley Research Center): "Electromagnetic control of fluid flows: a reduced order modelling approach"



• M. Romerio (Ecole Polytechnique Federalede Lausanne): "Interface and motion stability in a Hall-Heroult cell"



• Paul G. Schmidt (Auburn University): "Mathematical analysis of viscous incompressible MHD flow with nonideal boundaries"



• Frank Stefani (Forschungszentrum Rossendorf): "Numerical simulations of the Riga dynamo experiment"



• Andre Thess (Technische Universitaet Dresden): "Numerical simulation of MHD turbulence at low magnetic Reynolds number"



• Rachid Touzani (Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II): "Some optimal control problems in eddy current processes"



• Leaf Turner (Los Alamos):"Statistical magnetohydrodynamic dynamo theory"



• Maurice van Putten (MIT): "Applications of the divergence technique to astrophysical fluid dynamics and general relativity"



• P. Wang (Penn State University): "Global Attractor for a differential system in three dimensions"