[Colloquium] Terrel/Dissertation Defense/Apr 22, 2010

[Margaret Jaffey]

      Department of Computer Science/The University of Chicago

                    *** Dissertation Defense ***


Candidate:  Andy Terrel

Date:  Thursday, April 22, 2010

Time:  To Be Announced

Place:  To Be Announced

Title: Finite element method automation for non-Newtonian fluid models

Abstract:
Finite element methods (FEMs) are a popular simulation technique for
discretizing partial differential equations (PDEs) to an algebraic problem.
For well studied problems, theory shows which methods are optimal and can be
applied to a wide variety of applications. Building a FEM model for a new or
complex problem can be a labor intensive, error prone task.  The difficulties
have been somewhat alleviated by automation, but the tools often lag in
performance to hand optimized, specialized code.  Because of the ease of
specifying new models and solver techniques in automated solvers, it is an
ideal place to look at challenging problems and evaluate a large number of
methods.  By developing automation techniques, we study a challenging class of
problems:  complex fluids.

Candidate's Advisor: Prof. Ridgway Sott

Login to the Computer Science Department website for details,
including a draft copy of the dissertation:

https://www.cs.uchicago.edu/phd/phd_announcements#aterrel


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Margaret P. Jaffey                             margaret at cs.uchicago.edu
Department of Computer Science
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