Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 10, Number 06 April 1, 2010 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Symposium on Modelling of Physiological Flows Cut Cell Methods for Atmosphere and Ocean Modeling Postdoc, dynamics of moving contact lines, Imperial College London Postdoc, dynamic density functional theory, Imperial College London Positions at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 13:4 Contents, Nonlinearity 23:4 Contents, Physica D 239:11 Submissions to nls-net must be addressed to: Comments and suggestions are also welcome. General information about nls-net can be found at: http://www.maia.ub.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nls-net/ This is a service created and maintained in collaboration with the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) http://www.aimsciences.org/ ------ Subject: Symposium on Modelling of Physiological Flows From: Luca Formaggia Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:24:55 -0500 Second Announcement: MPF2010 - Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Physiological Flows, Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy, 2-5 June 2010 The Fourth Symposium on "Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Physiological Flows" will be held in Chia Laguna, Cagliari (Sardinia) Italy on June 2-5, 2010. The focus will be on vascular and cardiac flow, with emphasis on cardiac mechanics, fluid-wall interactions, drug release from stents, electrical signalling. The wonderful location of Chia will ensure a stimulating environment for scientific collaboration. Invited Speakers P. Colli Franzone - Universita' di Pavia (IT) R.A. Feijoo - LNCC Petropolis (BR) J.F. Gerbeau - INRIA Rocquencourt (FR) P.J. Hunter- University of Auckland (NZ) G.E. Karniadakis - Brown University (US) A. Robertson - University of Pittsburgh (US) A. Sequeira - Universitade Tecnica de Lisboa (PT) D.A. Steinman - University of Toronto (CA) C.A. Taylor - Stanford University (US) A. Veneziani - Emory University (US) The conference is supported by the MathCard EU Project - www.mathcard.eu More info and accepted abstracts at http://www.mathcard.eu/mpf2010/ Early registration by March, 30, 2010 Late registration by April 30, 2010 ------ Subject: Cut Cell Methods for Atmosphere and Ocean Modeling From: "Dr. Oswald Knoth" Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:04:41 GMT Cut Cell Methods for Atmosphere and Ocean Modeling 2010 Freie Universitat Berlin: 5.7. - 7.7.2010, Berlin, Germany Organizer: Christiane Helzel (Universitat Bochum), Rupert Klein (FU Berlin), Oswald Knoth (IfT Leipzig), Thomas von Larcher (FU Berlin) The purpose of the workshop is to discuss recent advances in cut cell methds and their application in atmosphere and ocean modeling. The workshop is supported by the DFG-priority program MetStroem. Topics of interest are * discretization near the boundary * well balancing and cut cells * grid refinement in space and time * linear solver * CFL limitations Confirmed speakers: Marsha Berger, Andreas Dobler, Daniel Hartmann, Stefan Hickel, Nicolas James, Stephan Kramer, Edi Miglio, Kavin Bates /Nikos Nikiforakis, Michael Oevermann, Bj??rn Sjogren, Robert Walko, Hiroe Yamazaki Contact: knoth@tropos.de Further information: http://asam.tropos.de/cut-cell-2010/ ------ Subject: Postdoc, dynamics of moving contact lines, Imperial College London From: Serafim Kalliadasis Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:43:32 -0500 Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology Fixed Term appointment for a period of 3.0 years. Salary: ?31,340 per annum Applications are invited by highly talented researchers for a 36 months Postdoctoral Research Associate position funded by the ERC Advanced Grant ?Complex Interfacial Flows: From the Nano- to the Macro-Scale? under the supervision of Dr S Kalliadasis. The project concerns the theoretical analysis of the dynamics of moving contact lines. The ultimate aim is the development of a rigorous methodology for the treatment of moving contact lines based on first principles. The successful candidate should have a PhD (or equivalent) in Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, or other related area and a strong foundation on general mathematical modelling, mathematical techniques (analytical and numerical). A good knowledge of theoretical fluid mechanics including interfacial/low-to-moderate-Reynolds numbers flows is highly desirable. He/she will join a highly interdisciplinary team working on a wide variety of exciting projects at the interface between applied mathematics and engineering science fundamentals. If you would like to discuss the project, please contact Dr Serafim Kalliadasis at S.Kalliadasis@imperial.ac.uk, Tel: +44-(0)-20-7594-1373, postal address: Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK. For an application form, job description and person specification please see the link below: Our preferred method of application is online via our website http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment (please select ?Job Search?, ?Research? as the ?Professional Area? and then enter the job title or vacancy reference number into ?Keywords?). Please complete and upload an application form and a copy of your CV as directed. Alternatively, if you are unable to apply online, please contact Mrs Alicia Lithgow on +44-(0)-20-7594-5699 or email aj.lithgow@imperial.ac.uk to request an application form. Completed application forms should be submitted, together with a CV that includes a list of publications by the closing date. Closing date for applications: 22 May 2010 ------ Subject: Postdoc, dynamic density functional theory, Imperial College London From: Serafim Kalliadasis Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:46:35 -0500 Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology Fixed Term appointment for a period of 3.0 years. Salary: ?31,340 per annum Applications are invited by highly talented researchers for a 36 months Postdoctoral Research Associate position funded by the ERC Advanced Grant ?Complex Interfacial Flows: From the Nano- to the Macro-Scale? under the supervision of Dr. S. Kalliadasis. The project concerns the theoretical formalism of dynamic density functional theory of non-uniform fluids. Of particular interest is a liquid-gas interface in contact with a solid substrate. The ultimate aim is the development of a rigorous microscopic approach for the description of such interfaces based on first principles. The successful candidate should have a PhD (or equivalent) in Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, or other related area and a strong foundation on general mathematical modelling, mathematical techniques (analytical and numerical) and thermodynamics/statistical mechanics. A good knowledge of density functional theory is highly desirable. He/she will join a highly interdisciplinary team working on a wide variety of exciting projects at the interface between applied mathematics and engineering science fundamentals. If you would like to discuss the project, please contact Dr. Serafim Kalliadasis at S.Kalliadasis@imperial.ac.uk, Tel: +44-(0)-20-7594-1373, postal address: Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK. For an application form, job description and person specification please see the link below: Our preferred method of application is online via our website http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment (please select ?Job Search?, ?Research? as the ?Professional Area? and then enter the job title or vacancy reference number into ?Keywords?). Please complete and upload an application form and a copy of your CV as directed. Alternatively, if you are unable to apply online, please contact Mrs Alicia Lithgow on +44-(0)-20-7594-5699 or email aj.lithgow@imperial.ac.uk to request an application form. Completed application forms should be submitted, together with a CV that includes a list of publications by the closing date. Closing date for applications: 22 May 2010 ------ Subject: Positions at Shanghai Jiao Tong University From: ygwang@sjtu.edu.cn Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:27:52 +0800 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one of the top universities in China, is undertaking a major expansion aimed at becoming one of the world's leading centers of scientific research. Building a first-rate Department of Mathematics is an essential part of this expansion. An ambitious faculty recruitment program, aimed at attracting several dozens of faculty members at all levels, including both senior academic leaders and promising young researchers, will be continued for the next few years. Salary and start-up packages are competitive with the peer institutions in China, and at the international level in special cases. Candidates will be considered at all ranks, and in all major fields of modern applied and pure mathematics. Endowed Chair Professorships are available to senior mathematicians with well-established academic credentials. Other senior and junior professorships are open to candidates with exceptional research records or potential. Applications should consist of a curriculum vitae, including a list of publications, summary of future research plans, and four letters of reference. Application materials should preferably be electronically sent to talentgirl.jane@gmail.com They can also be mailed to The Hiring Committee Department of Mathematics Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240, China. Review of applications will begin immediately, and will continue for the next several years. ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 13:4 From: Liwei Ning Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:49:29 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B (DCDS-B) Volume: 13, Number: 4 June 2010 http://aimsciences.org/journals/displayPapers1.jsp?pubID=354 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of DCDS-B 13-4 Special Issue on Oceanography and Mathematics. David Gerard-Varet, David Lannes and Laure Saint-Raymond pages{i--ii} Preface doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.4i Philippe Bonneton, Nicolas Bruneau, Bruno Castelle and Fabien Marche pages{729--738} Large-scale vorticity generation due to dissipating waves in the surf zone doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.729 Francois Bouchut and Vladimir Zeitlin pages{739--758} A robust well-balanced scheme for multi-layer shallow water equations doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.739 Afaf Bouharguane, Pascal Azerad, Fred\'eric Bouchette, Fabien Marche and Bijan Mohammadi pages{759--772} Low complexity shape optimization \& a posteriori high fidelity validation doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.759 Julien Chambarel, Christian Kharif and Olivier Kimmoun pages{773--782} Focusing wave group in shallow water in the presence of wind doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.773 Donatella Donatelli, Eduard Feireisl and Antonin Novotny pages{783--798} On incompressible limits for the Navier-Stokes system on unbounded domains under slip boundary conditions doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.783 Denys Dutykh and Dimitrios Mitsotakis pages{799--818} On the relevance of the dam break problem in the context of nonlinear shallow water equations doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.799 Eric Falcon pages{819--840} Laboratory experiments on wave turbulence doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.819 Carine Lucas and Antoine Rousseau pages{841--857} Cosine effect in ocean models doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.841 Frederic Rousset and Nikolay Tzetkov pages{859--872} On the transverse instability of one dimensional capillary-gravity waves doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.859 ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 23:4 From: Emma Avery Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:49:33 +0000 NONLINEARITY Volume 23, Issue 4, April, 2010 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: URL: http://stacks.iop.org/0951-7715/23/i=4 Pages: R93--114, 767--1030 INVITED ARTICLE R93 Dimension of non-conformal repellers: a survey Jianyu Chen and Yakov Pesin PAPERS 767 Symmetry breaking of relativistic multiconfiguration methods in the nonrelativistic limit Maria J Esteban, Mathieu Lewin and Andreas Savin 793 Weak KAM for commuting Hamiltonians M Zavidovique 809 Formation of singularities of solutions to the three-dimensional Euler--Boltzmann equations in radiation hydrodynamics Peng Jiang and Dehua Wang 823 Simulation of multifractal products of Ornstein--Uhlenbeck type processes Vo V Anh, Nikolai N Leonenko, Narn-Rueih Shieh and Emanuele Taufer 845 Nonlinear stability of travelling wave fronts for delayed reaction diffusion equations Guangying Lv and Mingxin Wang 875 Lipschitz equivalence of subsets of self-conformal sets Marta Llorente and Pertti Mattila 883 Coupled boundary layers for the primitive equations of atmosphere Dongjuan Niu 909 A simple framework to justify linear response theory Martin Hairer and Andrew J Majda 923 The one-dimensional Keller--Segel model with fractional diffusion of cells Nikolaos Bournaveas and Vincent Calvez 937 Explicit soliton asymptotics for the Korteweg--de Vries equation on the half-line A S Fokas and J Lenells 977 Blow-up criteria for the 3D cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation Justin Holmer, Rodrigo Platte and Svetlana Roudenko ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D 239:11 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:36:38 -0400 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 239, Issue 11, Pages 727-904 (1 June 2010) Emergent Phenomena in Spatially Distributed Systems - In Honor of Stefan C. Muller, Emergent Phenomena in Spatially Distributed Systems Edited by Marcus Hauser and Oliver Steinbock http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2010-997609988-1801688 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Preface Pages 727-728 Oliver Steinbock 2) Entropy balance in distributed reversible Gray-Scott model Pages 729-734 Hitoshi Mahara, Tomohiko Yamaguchi 3) A nonequilibrium temperature and fluctuation theorem for soft-mode turbulence Pages 735-738 Yoshiki Hidaka, Yusaku Hosokawa, Noriko Oikawa, Koyo Tamura, Rinto Anugraha, Shoichi Kai 4) Random channel kinetics for reaction-diffusion systems Pages 739-745 Marcel O. Vlad, Daniel H. Rothman, John Ross 5) Stochastic aspects of pattern formation during the catalytic oxidation of CO on Pd(111) surfaces Pages 746-751 Stefan Wehner, Stefan Karpitschka, Yevgen Burkov, Dieter Schmeisser, Jurgen Kuppers, Helmut R. Brand 6) Comparison of the oxidation of two porphyrin complexes by bromate with respect to wave propagation Pages 752-756 Krisztina Racz, Maria Burger, Zsuzsanna Ungvarai-Nagy 7) Front propagation in the bromate-sulfite-ferrocyanide-aluminum (III) system: Autocatalytic front in a buffer system Pages 757-765 Klara Kovacs, Marcin Leda, Vladimir K. Vanag, Irving R. Epstein 8) Anomalous dispersion in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction: Experiments and modeling Pages 766-775 Grigory Bordyugov, Nils Fischer, Harald Engel, Niklas Manz, Oliver Steinbock 9) Pattern formation in the thiourea-iodate-sulfite system: Spatial bistability, waves, and stationary patterns Pages 776-784 Judit Horvath, Istvan Szalai, Patrick De Kepper 10) Dynamical quorum sensing and synchronization in collections of excitable and oscillatory catalytic particles Pages 785-790 M.R. Tinsley, A.F. Taylor, Z. Huang, F. Wang, K. Showalter 11) Autocatalytic reaction dynamics in systems crowded by catalytic obstacles Pages 791-796 Carlos Echeverria, Raymond Kapral 12) Hysteresis phenomenon in the dynamics of spiral waves rotating around a hole Pages 797-807 V. Zykov, G. Bordyugov, H. Lentz, H. Engel 13) Flow waves of hierarchical pattern formation induced by chemical waves: The birth, growth and death of hydrodynamic structures Pages 808-818 H. Miike, K. Miura, A. Nomura, T. Sakurai 14) Influence of heat losses on nonlinear fingering dynamics of exothermic autocatalytic fronts Pages 819-830 J. D'Hernoncourt, A. De Wit 15) Double-diffusive cellular fingering in the horizontally propagating fronts of the chlorite-tetrathionate reaction Pages 831-837 Tamas Rica, Eva Popity-Toth, Dezso Horvath, Agota Toth 16) The effect of phase change materials on the frontal polymerization of a triacrylate Pages 838-847 Veronika G. Viner, John A. Pojman, Dmitry Golovaty 17) Desynchronization and clustering with pulse stimulations of coupled electrochemical relaxation oscillators Pages 848-856 Yumei Zhai, Istvan Z. Kiss, Hiroshi Kori, John L. Hudson 18) Mechano-chemical oscillations of a gel bead Pages 857-865 Stephane Metens, Sebastien Villain, Pierre Borckmans 19) A chemometric method to identify enzymatic reactions leading to the transition from glycolytic oscillations to waves Pages 866-872 Laszlo Zimanyi, Petro Khoroshyy, Thomas Mair 20) Annihilation and creation of rotating waves by a local light pulse in a protoplasmic droplet of the Physarum plasmodium Pages 873-878 Seiji Takagi, Tetsuo Ueda 21) A new traveling wave phenomenon of Dictyostelium in the presence of cAMP Pages 879-888 Hana Sevcikova, Jitka Cejkova, Lenka Krausova, Michal Pribyl, Frantisek Stepanek, Milos Marek 22) Two-dimensional wave patterns of spreading depolarization: Retracting, re-entrant, and stationary waves Pages 889-903 Markus A. Dahlem, Rudolf Graf, Anthony J. Strong, Jens P. Dreier, Yuliya A. Dahlem, Michaela Sieber, Wolfgang Hanke, Klaus Podoll, Eckehard Scholl