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Programme (preliminary)

Monday, October 05, 2009


 S1

Opening, Complexity of nonlinear waves


 8:30

 9:30

 10:00


Registration


Opening: Jüri Engelbrecht, Andrus Salupere, Tarmo Soomere, Arkadi Berezovski 

 Alan Jeffrey   Quasilinear  Hyperbolic Systems, Nonlinear Superposition and Solitons


 10:30


Coffee break

S2

Complexity of nonlinear waves 

11:00

11:30

12:00

Gérard A. Maugin  From Phase-transformation Fronts to the Growth of Long Bones  

Peter Ván Objectivity and Wave Propagation

Masaharu Kuroda   Complexity of Nonlinear Waves Observed in a Large Array of Fluid-elastic Oscillators

12:30

Lunch

S3

Ocean waves 

14:00

14:30

15:00

Miguel Onorato   Wave Turbulence in Shallow Water: Theory and Numerical Simulations

John Grue Scaling Law of Internal Run-up Duration 

Sergei Badulin On the Dominance of Nonlinear Transfer for Wind-driven Seas


15:00

Coffee break

S4

Ocean waves 

16:00


16:30

17:00


Tarmo Soomere Applications of Soliton Interactions in Rogue Wave Theory and in Understanding the Impact of Vessel Wake

Tomas Torsvik  Modeling Bottom Shear Stress for Transient Wave Events

Inga Zaitseva-Pärnaste   Seasonal and Long-term Variations of Wave Conditions in Estonian Coastal Waters

19:00

Reception by the Estonian Academy of Sciences and the GSD network

 

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

S5

Multiscale wave phenomena in inhomogeneous solids 

 9:00

 9:30

 10:00

Franco Pastrone   Hierarchy of Nonlinear Waves in Complex Microstructured Solids

Alexey Porubov   Models for Essentially Nonlinear Strain Waves in Complex Materials

Hui-Hui Dai   Solitary Shock Waves and Periodic Shock Waves in a Compressible Mooney-Rivlin Elastic Rod

10:30

Coffee break

S6

Multiscale wave phenomena in inhomogeneous solids 

 11:00

 
 11:30

 12:00

Serge dos Santos  Dispersion and Nonlinearity for Single Solitonic Pulse Acoustic Propagation in a Complex Shape Aeronautic Composite Material

Arvi Ravasoo   Nonlinear Counterpropagating Waves in Inhomogeneous Materials

Natalya Kizilova   Numerical Simulation of Wave Propagation in Multilayered Viscoelastic Tubes

 12:30

Lunch

S7

Numerical simulation of wave propagation 

14:00

14:30


15:00

Enrique Zuazua   Dispersive Numerical Schemes for Schrödinger Equations

Jiri Plesek   Numerical Stability of Mass Lumping Schemes for Higher Order Finite Elements

Mihhail Berezovski Waves in Materials with Microstructure: Numerical Simulation

15:30

Coffee break

S8

Applied wave mechanics 

16:00


16:30

17:00

Manfred Braun   On Periodic Waves Governed by the Extended Korteweg-deVries Equation

Anatoli Stulov    Propagation of Deformation Wave in the Piano Hammer Felt Material

Andras Szekeres    Waves in Thermoelastic and Plastic Solids

19:00

Conference dinner

 

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

S9

Solitons 

9:00

9:30

10:00

Henrik Kalisch  A Study of Dispersive Effects in Hydraulic Jumps

Kert Tamm   Emergence of Solitary Deformation Waves in Mindlin-type Microstructured Solids

Dmitri Tseluiko Solitary Pulse Interaction Theory for the Generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation

10:30

Coffee break

S10

Solitons, Nonlinear waves

11:00

11:30

12:00

Alexander Dyachenko  About Shape of Freakon

Ira Didenkulova  Travelling Waves in Strongly Inhomogeneous Media

Nicole Delpeche  The Generation and Dissipation of a Solitonic Wave that Travels in the             Reverse Direction to the Flow in the Saint John River Estuary, New Brunswick,                 Canada

12:30

Lunch

S11

Applied wave mechanics 

14:00

14:30

15:00

Heiko Herrmann Towards a Description of Twist Waves in Liquid Crystals Using Mesoscopic Continuum Physics

Christina Papenfuss  Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Description of Material Damage and Magnetization

Efim Pelinovsky Analytical Solutions of the Savage-Hutter Model for the Avalanche Dynamics in Inclined Channels

15:30

Coffee break

S12

Complexity 

16:00

16:30

Jaan Kalda Turbulent Mixing of Passive Scalars: Evolution of Discontinuity Fronts and                 Material Lines

Jüri Engelbrecht On Complexity and Beyond



A Windows XP notebook for beamer presentation of Powerpoint or PDF slides will be available in the lecture hall as well as an overhead projector for printed slides. Please use USB Flash Disk, CD ROM, but NOT floppy disk for your presentation storage.

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