Workshop on Mimetic Discretizations of Continuum Mechanics

University Of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM

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Abstract

ABSTRACT 0228920 Stanley Steinberg U of New Mexico We propose to organize a workshop: Mimetic Methods for Discretizing Continuum Problems. There are several di.erent research groups and individual researchers that have rather recently realized that they working on discretization methods that have many common features that we refer here to as mimetic. This workshop will be the .rst organized to bring this group of people together for the first time. There are many powerful methods for discretizing problem in continuum mechanics: finite element, di.erence and volume methods;sp ectral methods;along with various generalizations and combinations of these. Typically, these methods start with a continuummechanics problem described in terms of partial-differential, ordinary-differential, integral, and algebraic equation and then discretize this description of the problem. Some methods may instead start with an integral description in terms of conservation laws or start with the problem described in terms of differential forms.