GAMM Annual Meeting – Bremen 2008

Volume 8 (2008) of PAMM “Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics” assembles the contributions to the 79th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, held 31 March ‐‐ 4 April 2008 at the University of Bremen, Germany. The contributions are grouped according to the minisymposia and sessions of the conference. Overview of the Sections Minisymposia Mathematics Ma1 Modern boundary element methods: analysis and applications Ma2 Direct solvers Ma3 Engineering application of PDE‐constrained optimization Minisymposia Mechanics Me1 Control under limited communication Me2 Turbulent boundary layer separation Me3 Reliability‐based structural optimization (RBO) Young researchers' minisymposia YR1 Adaptive finite element procedures YR2 Numerical and analytical methods YR3 Inverse problems with sparsity constraints YR4 Model reduction and its applications YR5 Quasilinear operators: spectral properties and evolution problems YR6 LES of complex turbulent flows Sections 1–24 1 Multibody dynamics 2 Biomechanics 3 Damage and fracture 4 Structural mechanics 5 Oscillations 6 Material models in solids 7 Coupled problems 8 Multiscales and homogenization 9 Turbulence and reactive flows 10 Viscous flows 11 Frictionless and compressible flows 12 Waves and acoustics 13 Applied analysis 14 Applied stochastics 15 Computer algebra 16 Optimization 17 Applied and numerical linear algebra 18 Numerical methods for differential equations 19 Optimization of differential equations 20 Dynamics and control 21 Mathematical image processing 22 Flow control 23 Scientific computing