ISC 5939 Schedule
Finite Element Seminar
Spring Session 2015

Class is held in room DSL499, Wednesdays, 1:25-2:15pm.

Each student must give an oral presentation of a research paper in the general area of finite element methods. The audience is expected to ask questions, and to participate in a discussion after the presentation.

Students are free to choose their research paper. They may also trade their presentation dates, with the instructor's approval.

1. 07 January: John Burkardt,
   Class overview;
   The mathematical heat equation in 1d;
   a finite difference solution method;
   a finite element solution method.
2. 14 January: John Burkardt;
   Paper: Quo Vadis, Scientific Software?
   Author: Wolfgang Bangerth, Timo Heister,
   
3. 21 January: John Burkardt;
   Paper: New development in FreeFem++,
   Author: Frederic Hecht,
   Demo: Using FreeFem++ to solve the Poisson equation in the square.
4. 28 January: John Burkardt,
   Paper: Finite element approximation of partial differential equations using FreeFem++, or How I learned to stop worrying and love numerical analysis,
   Author: John Chrispell, Jason Howell.
5. 04 February: James Cheung,
   Paper: On conforming finite element methods for the inhomogeneous stationary Navier-Stokes equations,
   Author: Max Gunzburger, Janet Peterson
6. 11 February: Feifei Xu,
   Paper: Adaptive anisotropic meshing for steady convection-dominated problems,
   Author: Hoa Nguyen, Max Gunzburger, Lili Ju, John Burkardt
7. 18 February: John Burkardt,
   Three ways to define a mesh in FreeFem++;
   How do we classify linear second order PDE's?
8. 25 February: Benjamin Crysup,
   Paper: Free tools and strategies for the generation of 3D finite element meshes: Modeling of the cardiac structures,
   Author: Pavarino, Neves, Machado, de Godoy, Shiyou, Momente, Zafalon, Pinto, Valencio,
   To fully enjoy this presentation, Ben recommends that you install the free Blender program on your laptops!
9. 04 March: Qingguan Guan,
   Paper: Finite part integrals and hypersingular kernels,
   Author: Youn-Sha Chan, Albert Fannjiang, Glaucio Paulino, Bao-Feng Feng.
   
10. 11 March: (No class! Spring Break!)
11. 18 March: Zlatko Sokolikj,
    Paper: Subject-specific finite element modeling of normal aortic valve biomechanics from 3D+t TEE images,
    Author: Michael Labrosse, Carsten Beller, Munir Boodhwani, Christopher Hudson, Benjamin Sohmer
12. 25 March: Evan Cresswell-Clay,
    Paper: Analysis of synaptic transmission in the neuromuscular junction using a continuum finite element model,
    Author: Jason Smart, Andrew McCammon
13. 01 April: Malihe Shaban Tameh,
    Paper: Finite-element methods in electronic-structure theory,
    Author: Pask, Klein, Stern, Fong.
14. 08 April: John Burkardt,
    The Helmholtz equation
    Solving a model of cooking with microwaves.
15. 15 April: Mike Schneier,
    Paper: The Reduced Basis Method for Viscous Incompressible Flow Calculations,
    Author: Janet Peterson.
16. 22 April: Isaac Lyngaas,
    Paper: FEM-RBF: A geometrically flexible, efficient numerical solution technique for partial differential equations with mixed regularity,
    Author: Alfa Heryudono, Elisabeth Larsson.

You can return to the SEM 2015 web page.