Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes HPSC 2015: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, March 16-20, 2015, Hanoi, Vietnam Hardback - 2017

Springer, 2017. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardcover, x + 291 pages, NOT ex-library. A straightened corner fold on one leaf, else interior is very good: clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show faint handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This proceedings volume highlights a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, which took place in Hanoi, Vietnam on March 16-20, 2015. The conference was jointly organized by the Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies (HITS), the Institute of Mathematics of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) at Heidelberg University, and the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Ministry of Education The contributions cover a broad, interdisciplinary spectrum of scientific computing and showcase recent advances in theory, methods, and practical applications. Subjects covered numerical simulation, methods for optimization and control, parallel computing, and software development, as well as the applications of scientific computing in physics, mechanics, biomechanics and robotics, material science, hydrology, biotechnology, medicine, transport, scheduling, and industry. -- Contents: Minimum Energy Time Tables for Subway Operation: And Hamiltonian Feedback to Return to Schedule; Dynamically Adaptive Tree Grid Modeling of Flood Inundation Based on Shallow Water Equations; On the Relevance of Common Humanoid Gait Generation Strategies in Human Locomotion: An Inverse Optimal Control Approach; Applying a Patched Mesh Method to Efficiently Solve a Singularly Perturbed Reaction-Diffusion Problem; Nonlinear Optimal Control of a Heavy Duty Truck Exhaust Heat Recovery System; Effect of Hessian Evaluations in the Global Optimization [alpha] BB Method; Structure of Optimal Samples in Continuous Nonlinear Experimental Design for Parameter Estimation; Discovering Singular Points in DAE Models; pySLEQP: A Sequential Linear Quadratic Programming Method Implemented in Python; Aiming for Maximum Tracking Accuracy in Repetitive Control Systems; Multiphysics Modeling of Pollutant Uptake by Mangroves; On Travel Time Functions for Mixed Traffic Systems Dominated by Motorcycles; Coupled Unsteady Fluid Dynamics and Aero-Acoustics Simulations of a Realistic Car Mirror: A Comparison of Cloud and High Performance Computing; An All-Interaction Matrix Approach to Linear and Bilinear System Identification; Optimal Energy Control of Hybrid Vehicles ; Optimal Operation of an Evaporation Process; High Performance Computing for Cognition-Guided Cardiac Surgery: Soft Tissue Simulation for Mitral Valve Reconstruction in Knowledge-Based Surgery Assistance; Two FPTAS for the Constrained Shortest Path Problem Applied to Hybrid Vehicle Routing; Simultaneous Parameter and Input Estimation of a Respiratory Mechanics Model; Generalized Framework of OKID for Linear State-Space Model Identification; Variational-Monolithic ALE Fluid-Structure Interaction: Comparison of Computational Cost and Mesh Regularity Using Different Mesh Motion Techniques; Parallel Multiphysics Simulations Using OpenPALM with Application to Hydro-Biogeochemistry Coupling