Wednesday Morning, October 25
MS32
Object-Oriented Approaches for Scientific Computing
This minisymposium will focus on an important and rapidly developing area of
scientific computing - object - oriented approaches. Object-oriented approaches
represent a dramatic and significant break with tranditional procedural
approaches (e.g., FORTRAN and C), which form the vast majority of scientific
computing applications used in industrial and university settings. Object-
oriented approaches offer the promises of (1) increasing code reusability; (2)
providing a more effective means for managing complexity of sophisticated
applications; and (3) decreasing the effort required for maintaining and
modifying applications. Current research is involved with the development of
sophisticated applications that take advantage of the high level of abstraction
that is possible using object-oriented approaches, and efforts to improve the
run-time efficiency of such approaches. The speakers in this minisymposium will
discuss these major research areas with examples from the areas of porous media
flow and transport phenomena, solid mechanics, and air quality modeling.
Organizer: Cass T. Miller
University of North Carolina
- 8:00 Object-Oriented Programming for Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Solid Mechanics and Flow in Porous Media
- John Trangenstein, Duke University
- 8:30 Generic Software Tools for PDEs
- Are Magnus Bruaset, SINTEF, Norway, and Hans Petter Langtangen, University of Oslo, Norway
- 9:00 The Development of Flexible, Reusable, and Efficient Simulation Environment for Modeling Multiphase Flow and Transport
- Joseph F. Kanney, Phillip B. Calvin, University of North Carolina; and Cass T. Miller, Organizer
- 9:30 Use of Object-Oriented Compiler-Compilers to Create Input Languages for Air Quality Models
- Harvey E. Jeffries, University of North Carolina
7/26/95