Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2008
This volume is the Proceedings of the European Conference on Mathematics for Industry held in London in June 2008. The aim of the meeting was to reinforce the role of mathematics as an overarching resource for industry and business. Contributions cover a
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THE EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR MATHEMATICS IN INDUSTRY SUBSERIES Managing Editor Vincenzo Capasso Editors Luis L. Bonilla Rob er ertt M Maattheij Helmut Neunzert Otmar Scherzer
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Alistair D. Fitt John Norbury Hilary Ockendon R. Eddie Wilson Editors
Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2008 With 360 Figures, 109 in color and 46 Tables
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Editors Prof. Alistair D. Fitt University of Southampton School of Mathematics Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom [email protected]
Dr. Hilary Ockendon Dr. John Norbury University of Oxford Mathematical Institute St. Giles 24-29 Oxford OX1 3LB United Kingdom [email protected] [email protected]
Dr. R. Eddie Wilson University of Bristol Bristol Centre for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics Bristol BS8 1TR United Kingdom [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-12109-8 e-ISBN 978-3-642-12110-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-12110-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010930279 Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 35, 60, 62, 65, 70, 74, 76, 80, 82, 91, 92, 97 c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: deblik, Berlin Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The 15th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry was held in the agreeable surroundings of University College London, just 5 minutes walk from the British Museum in the heart of London, over the five warm, sunny days from 30 June to 4 July 2008. Participants from all over the world met with the common aim of reinforcing the role of mathematics as an overarching resource for industry and business. The conference attracted over 300 participants from 30 countries, most of them participating with either a contributed talk, a minisymposium presentation or a plenary lecture. ‘Mathematics in Industry’ was interpreted in its widest sense as can be seen from the range of applications and techniques described in this volume. We mention just two examples. The Alan Tayler Lecture was given by Mario Primicerio on a problem arising from moving oil through pipelines when temperature variati
