Harrelson News–2000
The Center for Research in Scientific Computation
The Center for Research in Scientific Computation (CRSC) is a formally recognized, multidisciplinary center administered by North Carolina State University. Its purpose is to foster research in scientific computing and provide a focal point for research in computational science, engineering and applied mathematics. Graduate education as well as postdoctoral research opportunities are also a major focus of the CRSC faculty and staff. For more information about CRSC consult the website: http://www2.ncsu.edu/math/CRSC
CRSC Industrial Applied Mathematics Program (IMAP)
The Center for Research in Scientific Computation, in cooperation with the Department of Mathematics, sponsors a university/industrial research project program. This program has been informally underway for the past several years and has exceeded optimistic expectations in regard to the benefits provided for students, postdocs, faculty, and industrial partners. The main goal of the program, called the Industrial Applied Mathematics Program (IAMP), is to provide substantive non-academic research-related experiences for graduate students, postdoctoral and faculty participants while contributing to the research efforts of industrial participants. These experiences, involving a year-long participation in an industrial, governmental lab or agency or other non-academic research project, facilitates the development of participants' ability to communicate and interact with scientists who are not traditional mathematicians but who have an interest in quantitative aspects of science and engineering. These experiences improve graduate student and faculty vision about the type of mathematics and science that should be pursued by students who aspire to a non-academic postgraduate career. The IAMP is open to graduate students, postdocs and faculty who commit to appropriate projects. The projects may or may not be related to a student's thesis research (if he or she is in the thesis stage of their program). Student participants normally are enrolled in one of the mathematics Ph.D. programs or may be associated with faculty who are members of the CRSC.
A committee, consisting of Dr. Julie Kimbell (CIIT), Dr. Lynn Yanyo (Lord Corp.), and Prof. HienTran (NCSU), serves to administer this program. Interested parties can contact the CRSC director, Dr. H. T. Banks (htbanks@eos.ncsu.edu.), for further information or to express an interest in participation.
Current non-academic collaborators and projects include:
Aerospace Corporation:Modeling advanced digital communication systems.
Battelle Memorial Institute:
Modeling of high performance actuators.
The Boeing Company:
Modeling and control of flow-induced nonlinear acoustic fields.
Numerical methods for software design and control.
Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (CIIT):
Modeling of toxic chemicals in humans (i. benzene, ii. genistein).
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
Modeling and simulation of air flow with suspended particles through branched and partially obstructed airways in the lungs.
PBPK modeling of TCE.
ETREMA Products Inc.:
Magnetostrictive transducer implementation.
Innovative Technology Applications Co.:
Reduced order modeling and control design in aeroacoustic flows.
Jenike & Johanson Inc.:
Modeling of granular flows.
Lockheed Martin:
Modeling of nonlinear and hysteretic smart material transducers;
Adaptive optics.
Lord Corporation:
Smart materials/nonlinear elastomers.
Radiofrequency bonding of adhesives.
Design of Polymers, MR fluids.
MedAcoustics:
Modeling and detection of stenosis in cardiac arteries.
NASA Langley Research Center:
Modeling of high performance smart material actuators.
Detection damage in structures using SQUIDS.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Cell kinetic models in developmental toxicology.
US Air Force Research Laboratory (Brooks):
Pharmacokinetic modeling of dioxin pathways: intake, metabolism, and elimination in humans.
Electromagnetic interrogation of dielectric materials and tissues.
US Army Waterways Experiment Station:
Modeling of flow in porous media.