Title: Developing optimization software: overview, challenges and perspectives Ernesto Birgin – Department of Computer Sciences – University of São Paulo Abstract: Our experiences developing optimization software will be overviewed in this talk. The objective of the talk is to highlight the challenges involved in the development and long-term maintenance…
Title: Neutralization of Acid Mine Drainage Presenter: Mario Primicerio – University of Florence Abstract: We present a mathematical model for the flow of an acid solution through a reacting porous medium. The solid matrix is supposed to be formed by families of spheres with different radii and the fluid…
Singular Shocks in a Chromatography Model: Singular Perturbation Theory and Geometric Insight Barbara Lee Keyfitz Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University bkeyfitz@math.ohio-state.edu A standard model for two-component chromatographic separation provides a well-known example of a system of two hyperbolic conservation laws (quasilinear hyperbolic partial dierential equations) in…