Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2003

In the past few decades, many significant insights have been gained into several areas of computational methods in sciences and engineering. New problems and methodologies have appeared in some areas of sciences and engineering. There is always a need in these fields for the advancement of information exchange. The aim of this book is to facilitate the sharing of ideas, problems and methodologies between computational scientists and engineers in several disciplines. Extended abstracts of papers on the recent advances regarding computational methods in sciences and engineering are provided. The book briefly describes new methods in numerical analysis, computational mathematics, computational and theoretical physics, computational and theoretical chemistry, computational biology, computational mechanics, computational engineering, computational medicine, high performance computing, etc. Contents:Components for Time Series Receiver Clock Offset in GPS Solutions (P Abad)Some Numerical Methods for Stiff Problems (J C Butcher)Bifurcation Phenomena in Molecular Vibrational Spectroscopy (S C Farantos)Simulations of Spart in Random Fields (D T Hristopoulos)Electric Properties of Substituted Diacetylenes (P Karamanis & G Maroulis)Data Mining and Cryptology (E C Laskari et al.)A Finite Element Approach for the Dirac Radial Equation (L A A Nikolopoulos)Constraint Based Web Mining (I Petrounias et al.)Axisymmetric Rigid Bodies in Creeping Flow (J Roumeliotis)The Impact of Graphics Calculator on Mathematics Education in Asia (C-Y Suen)On the Systematic Construction of Molecular Basis Sets (S Wilson)and other papers Readership: Researchers and graduate students in any discipline involving scientific computation. Keywords:Numerical Analysis;Computational Mathematics;Computational and Theoretical Physics;Computational Chemistry;Computational Biology;Computational Mechanics;Computational Engineering, Computational Medicine;High Performance Computing