Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Mathematics in Industry August 27¿31, 1991 Limerick

The sixth European Conference on Mathematics in Industry (ECMI 91) took place at Limerick, Ireland during August 27-31, 1991. This series of ECMI Conferences is clearly satisfying the need to provide a forum, in a European wide context, for the presentation of material related to the application of mathematics to industrial problems. The result, at Limerick, was the presence of approximately 170 delegates representing most countries of Western and Eastern Europe (with a small number from the U. S. and Canada) participating in this information exchange on a wide range of types of problems. The only identifiable common characteristic of the presentations was the element of application of mathematics to an industrially related problem. The conference programme consisted of 8 invited lectures with approximately 80 contributed papers. These proceedings consist of 7 invited lectures and 63 contributed papers. The range of topics is very wide including areas such as optical fibres, biomechanics, electric power optimization, heat conduction, cryptography, catalytic reactors, dynamics of non-Newtonian fluids, fluid dynamics in a variety of applications, continuing education, epidemiology, numerical methods and software, optimal control, robotics etc. It is not possible to group the presentations under identifiable topic areas and the contents have therefore been organized in sections devoted to the invited lectures and the contributed papers. Within the contributed papers there are two small subsections devoted to (a) industrial design and (b) mathematical education for industry. In each section papers are listed in alphabetical order by name of first author.

Diffusion approximation on neural networks and applications for image processing.- A survey on system indentification.- On numerical simulation in the microelectronics industry.- Instabilities in roller conveyors used in flat glass manufacture.- Inverse cascades in turbulence.- Numerical computation of electromagnetic fields.- Nonlinear hyperbolic systems in chromatography.- On the mathematic modelling of kinematically related transforming rotations tooth surfaces.- Mathematical modelling of thermosyphons in cryogenic air separation plants.- Stability estimate for the nonlinear seakeeping problem.- Modelling optical channel-waveguides using a domain-integral equation technique.- Deformation analysis of the earth by a constructive interpolation model.- A barrier penetration formula for optimal tunnelling models.- Communicating chemical processes — a transputer model of the British coal twin-bed pyrolyser/combustor.- Travelling combustion waves in porous media.- Estimating nonstationary time series with missing data.- Matrix “Stable — Unstable” bloc triangular and diagonal forms.- Optimal friction laws for damping the forced vibrations of linear systems.- Implementation of public key and secret key cryptography on a local area network.- Interface pressures in contact zones.- Mathematical models for the transmission dynamics of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Ireland.- Numerical approximation in the theory of plates with transverse shear deformation.- Three-dimensional conductive heat transfer from discrete periodic sources to a conductive sink.- Mathematical models for espresso coffee preparation.- Application of Denavit and Hartenburg coordinate frame to robot kinematics in a flexible manufacturing cell.- Hyperbolicity maps for two-phase flow problems.- Observation of ocean waves with a synthetic aperture radar.- On the solution of the hydrothermal coordination problem by decomposition.- Vibrations of space structures.- Earthquake loading on pipebridges.- Numerical treatment of a stochastic programming model for optimal power dispatch.- On the scheduling of hydro power plant systems in the frame of the unit commitment problem.- Mathematical models for flow and separation of particulate materials.- PAN — a problem solving environment for numerical analysis.- Improving the performance of a dynamometer which measures axial force and torque during drilling of Kevlar 49 composite.- A quasi-likelihood Markov model for the hardenability of steel.- Implementation of an elecricity load forecasting system.- An extinction criterion for a catalytic wall reactor.- Extraction of transistor model parameters.- Mathematical modelling of modular lower limb protheses.- Optimum shape of a cooling fin.- The optimal collar.- Drag prediction for aircraft at transonic speed.- Paths of reinforced plastic fibres and structures on blood vessel walls.- Small drops, surface tension and contact angle.- Optimal scheduling of hydrothermal power systems.- Singular behaviour of eigenvalue Loci arising from an MHD instability in the presence of flow.- A generalised cusum scheme for autocorrelated data.- Robot control based on neural networks.- Computer-aided layout design.- Optimal minimax controllers with structural constraints.- System for statistical simulation analysis and aptimization of linear hybrid circuits.- Non-regular adaptive grids for 2-D gas dynamics.- Steady solutions for the flow of an electro-rheological fluid between cylindrical electrodes.- Application of interval arithmetic to solve a problem in liquid crystal modelling.- Hydrodynamic problems in fibre spinning.- Numerical analysis of high viscosity jet buckling.- Stochastic scheduling for risk-levelling maintenance scheduling in electric power systems.- Two criteria for time series modelling comparison.- Coupled heat and mass transfer in a weld pool.- The modelling of napkins.- Applications of the geometrical shock correction method for solving nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws.- Selection, purchase, capital recovery, multi-level maintenance and replacement model for a stochastically deteriorating production system.- The manufacture of optical fibres.- Unit commitment problem by simulated annealing and an analysis of neighbourhood structure.- A simple model for the shape of fibre tapers.- Dispersion control in multiple layer optical fibres.- The experience of mathematics undergaduates during industrial placement.- How can education respond to industry’s needs?.- Software-oriented mathematical continuing education.