High Fidelity Simulations & Enabling Technologies:
   State-of-the-art, State-of-the-practice & Future Directions
           February 14, 2007, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST
  Access Grid Conference Facility, 111 Cummington Street, Room B17
       http://scv.bu.edu/accessgrid/events/02-14-2007.html

Presented over the Access Grid by Dr. Bharat Soni, Professor and Chair 
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama in 
Birmingham (UAB), courtesy of the Minority Serving institutions Network.

RSVP: accessgrid@bu.edu

With the advent and rapid development of high performance computing and 
communication (HPCC) and robust and efficient mathematical/numerical 
algorithms, computational field simulation (CFS) has rapidly emerged as 
an essential tool for scientific, engineering, and biomedical analysis 
and design environment. This has fundamentally changed the way 
underlying principles of science and engineering are applied to 
research, design, and development. For example, computational fluid 
dynamics (CFD) and computational structural dynamics (CSD) techniques, 
traditionally used in fluid mechanics and structural mechanics problems 
involving aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, automotive, and heat and mass 
transfer applications, are now being applied to electromagnetic, 
bio-engineering, bio-medical, semi-conductor, atmospheric science, 
environmental and civil transport, and other physical field problems. In 
response to this paradigm change, integration of experiments, 
simulations and theory encompassing micro/nano technology, 
Biotechnology, information technology, and ecology/energy have became 
the education and R&D emphasis of this century. In this respect, an 
interdisciplinary group of engineering, computer and information 
science, physics, biology, chemistry, public health and medicine faculty 
from University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has formed a 
collaborative team to address emerging multidisciplinary applications.

The progress realized in the development of high fidelity simulation 
(HFS) algorithms and associated enabling technologies (ET) for this 
endeavor will be presented. Emphasis will be placed on providing the 
current state-of-the-art (SOA) and the state-of-the-practice (SOP) 
associated with all aspects of computational field simulations involving 
pre-processing (geometry-mesh generation, boundary conditions and 
problem set-up), processing (numerical solution of pertinent set of 
non-linear partial differential equations representative of the science 
of the field to be simulated), and post-processing (visualization and 
feature detection). The tools and technology developed by the presenter 
and his group will be discussed with computational examples of practical 
interest. In particular, the concentration will be placed on the current 
and future directions in research and development and education.

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