Scientific Computation and Visualisation
The interests of the group cover a wide range of numerical algorithms,
software and visualisation systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the use
of adaptivity to compute reliable solutions, parallelism for efficiency and
visualisation to provide physical insight inareas such as medical imaging
and computational fluid dynamics. Specific areas include numerical analysis
and the solution of partial and ordinary differential equations,
optimisation methods, shape preserving interpolation and volume
visualisation. Many numerical applications are in the area of Computational
Fluid Dynamics through the interdisciplinary CFD Centre at Leeds. A
particular interest is the design of new visualisation systems, and the
extension of the current family of systems such as IRIS Explorer, to
encompass the computational and data management aspects of scientific
problem solving.
Research Staff
- Dr Martin Berzins
- Dr Ken Brodlie
- Mr Denis Hutchinson
- Dr Peter Jimack
- Dr Helen Wright
- Dr Paul Selwood
- Dr Bill Spears
- Dr Justin Ware
Key Publications
Hodgson and Jimack (1993)
Efficient mesh partitioning for
Parallel PDE Solvers on Distributed Memory Machines. in R.F. Sincovec et al (eds.)
Proc. of VIth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing
SIAM, Philadelphia, 962-970.
Brodlie, Brankin, Banecki, Gay, Poon and Wright (1993)
A Problem Solving Environment Integrating Computation and Visualization,
Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 1993 Conference, pp102-109, IEEE Computer
Society Press, 102-109.
Berzins and Ware (1994)
Reliable Finite Volume Methods for the Navier-Stokes Equations. in F-K Hebeker,
R. Rannacher and G.Wittum (eds.), in Numerical Methods for the Navier-Stokes
Equations, Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics Number 47, Vieweg, 1-8.
Pennington and Berzins (1994)
New NAG Library Software for First Order Systems of Time-Dependent PDE's,
ACM Trans on Math. Software. Vol. 20, No. 1, pp63-99.
Khalaf and Hutchinson (1992)
Parallel algorithms for initial value problems; parallel shooting. In Parallel
Computing, volume 18, pages 661-674.
Core Funding:
Collabrotive Visualisation and Scientific Analysis (EPSRC ROPA, £100K)
Parallel Unstructured Mesh Generation (EPSRC, £150K)
3D PDE SPRINT + Software (Shell Research Ltd, £120K)
KINEX Project (NAG Ltd, £80K)
Visualisation Environment for Concept Designs (EPSRC, £60K, with
Dept. Mech. Eng.)
University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
October 1995