Monday, May 22

MS5
Computations and Analysis of Interfaces in Materials - Part I of II

10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room: Declaration

For Part II, see MS12.

Computations and analysis of interfaces and understanding interfacial phenomenon is very important to many problems in material sciences. In this minisymposium, the speakers will focus on the mathematical modeling and analysis as well as numerical computations of problems involving interfaces in materials. They will discuss micro-structure evolution, thin films, surface diffusions and deformation of elastic sheets. The mathematical and computational models discussed in the minisymposium involve studies of simplified mathematical equations, and sharp interface approach and diffusive interface approaches applied to specific physical problems.

10:00-10:25 A Continuum Description of Interfacial Geometry

Perry H. Leo, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

10:30-10:55 The Generalized Von-Kármán Equations: Deformations of m-Dimensional Elastic Sheets

Shankar C. Venkataramani, University of Chicago, USA

11:00-11:25 A Fast and Accurate Numerical Approaches for Stefan Problems and Crystal Growth

Zhilin Li, North Carolina State University, USA

11:30-11:55 Numerical Simulation of 3D Microstructural Evolution in Inhomogeneous Elastic Media

Xiaofan Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA