FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT of the international workshop

"High-resolution schemes for convection-dominated flows: 30 years of FCT"

Location: University of Dortmund, Germany

Date: September 29-30, 2003

Organizing committee:

Dmitri Kuzmin (University of Dortmund, Germany), Rainald Loehner (George Mason University, USA), Stefan Turek (University of Dortmund, Germany)

Background and scope:

Convection-dominated flows are notoriously difficult to treat numerically. Solutions produced by standard discretization techniques are corrupted by nonphysical oscillations and/or excessive numerical diffusion. The first high-resolution scheme to overcome these shortcomings was the now classical Flux-Corrected-Transport (FCT) algorithm introduced 30 years ago by Boris and Book. Their pioneering idea of blending high- and low-order discretizations has paved the way for the development of a whole range of high-resolution schemes which use flux/slope limiters to prevent the formation of wiggles in the vicinity of shocks and discontinuities while retaining the high accuracy of approximation in regions where the solution is sufficiently smooth. The aim of this 2-day workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of the progress made in the numerical simulation of convection-dominated flows during the three decades elapsed since the birth of FCT. Scientists from around the globe are encouraged to present their results regarding recent trends and developments in this challenging research field. The tentative list of speakers includes leading experts (D.L. Book, R. Loehner, S. Zalesak) who have laid the foundations of the FCT methodology and demonstrated its potential in a variety of spectacular CFD simulations.

Participation:

Registration form will be available shortly at the homepage of the Workshop http://www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/lsiii/conf/fct30.html. Please submit your contribution online or send the title and abstract of your talk by e-mail to fct30@math.uni-dortmund.de no later than July 31, 2003.