Proceedings of the 2004 International conference on Computational Techniques and Applications, Melbourne, Australia, September 2004.

Scientific Editor: Rob May
Electronic Editor: A. J. Roberts

Published by ANZIAM Journal
(electronic supplement)

Preface to the proceedings

Topics, abstracts and articles of the proceedings

The following articles are published in the order and as they are finalised with the electronic editors of the society.

Invited articles of plenary speakers

Computational studies of the shear flow behaviour of a model for nematic liquid crystalline polymers
D. H. Klein, C. Garcia-Cervera, H. D. Ceniceros and L. G. Leal , see abstract and article, April 26, 2005, pp.C210--C244

Inverse problems: A pragmatist's approach to the recovery of information from indirect measurements
R. S. (Bob) Anderssen, see abstract and article, July 9, 2005, pp.C588--C622

High performance computation for direct numerical and large eddy simulation
Chaoqun Liu, see abstract and article, March 31, 2006, pp.C1371--C1414

Contributed refereed articles

Asymptotic correction and inverse eigenvalue problems: an overview
Alan L. Andrew, see abstract and article, March 7, 2005, pp.C1--C14

Finite element algorithm with adaptive quadtree-octree mesh refinement
G. P. Nikishkov, see abstract and article, March 8, 2005, pp.C15--C28

A fast wavelet algorithm for image deblurring
D. L. Donoho and M. E. Raimondo , see abstract and article, March 10, 2005, pp.C29--C46

Flow focusing in microchannels
M. R. Davidson, D. J. E. Harvie and J. J. Cooper-White, see abstract and article, March 14, 2005, pp.C47--C58

Selection bias in plots of microarray or other data that have been sampled from a high-dimensional space
J. H. Maindonald and C. J. Burden, see abstract and article, March 15, 2005, pp.C59--C74

Propeller blade signatures in the wavelet domain
D. H. Smith, see abstract and article, March 15, 2005, pp.C75--C88

Comparing genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimisation for an inverse problem exercise
C. R. Mouser and S. A. Dunn, see abstract and article, March 21, 2005, pp.C89--C101

Coupled nonlinear oscillations of microbubbles
A. Ooi and R. Manasseh, see abstract and article, March 21, 2005, pp.C102--C116

Separating, transitional flow affected by various inflow oscillation regimes
J. G. Wissink, see abstract and article, April 6, 2005, pp.C117--C132

An analysis of parasitic current generation in volume of fluid simulations
D. J. E. Harvie, M. R. Davidson and M. Rudman , see abstract and article, April 19, 2005, pp.C133--C149

A parametric study of droplet deformation through a microfluidic contraction
D. J. E. Harvie, M. R. Davidson, J. J. Cooper-White and M. Rudman , see abstract and article, April 19, 2005, pp.C150--C166

Modelling blockage effects using a spectral element method
M. D. Griffith, K. Hourigan and M. C. Thompson , see abstract and article, April 21, 2005, pp.C167--C180

Vortex wake and energy transitions of an oscillating cylinder at low Reynolds number
B. Stewart, J. Leontini, K. Hourigan and M. C. Thompson , see abstract and article, April 22, 2005, pp.C181--C195

Polyhedral function constrained optimization problems
M. R. Osborne, see abstract and article, April 22, 2005, pp.C196--C209

Two-point boundary value problems, Green's functions, and product integration
G. D. McBain and S. W. Armfield, see abstract and article, April 27, 2005, pp.C245--C259

Role of particle rotations and rolling resistance in a semi-infinite particulate solid indented by a rigid flat punch
Antoinette Tordesillas, John Peters and Maya Muthuswamy, see abstract and article, April 27, 2005, pp.C260--C275

A method for extracting coupled patterns of predictable and chaotic components in pairs of climate variables
C. S. Frederiksen and X. Zheng, see abstract and article, April 27, 2005, pp.C276--C289

Parallel implementation of a monotone domain decomposition algorithm for nonlinear reaction-diffusion problems
M. P. Hardy and I. Boglaev, see abstract and article, April 28, 2005, pp.C290--C303

Using computational fluid dynamics to study the effect of contact angle on microdroplet deformation
G. Rosengarten, D. Harvie and J. Cooper--White, see abstract and article, April 28, 2005, pp.C304--C319

Prediction of chain length effects in elongational flows of dilute polymer solutions by successive fine graining
P. Sunthar and J. Ravi Prakash, see abstract and article, May 3, 2005, pp.C320--C335

A thermomechanical formulation of finite element schemes for micropolar continua
S. D. C. Walsh and A. Tordesillas, see abstract and article, May 6, 2005, pp.C336--C350

Vortex breakdown state selection as a meta-stable process
A. J. Fitzgerald, K. Hourigan and M. C. Thompson, see abstract and article, May 15, 2005, pp.C351--C364

Modelling vortex-induced vibration with driven oscillation
J. S. Leontini, M. C. Thompson and K. Hourigan, see abstract and article, May 15, 2005, pp.C365--C378

Fast and accurate closure approximations for bead-spring models of dilute polymer solutions
R. Prabhakar and J. R. Prakash, see abstract and article, May 21, 2005, pp.C379--C393

Computing the preconditioner for the Schur complement
K. Moriya and T. Nodera, see abstract and article, May 23, 2005, pp.C394--C408

A new adaptive restart for GMRES($m$) method
Linjie Zhang and Takashi Nodera, see abstract and article, May 24, 2005, pp.C409--C425

Numerical techniques for linear and nonlinear eigenvalue problems in the theory of elasticity
Aliki D. Muradova, see abstract and article, May 24, 2005, pp.C426--C438

A two-dimensional CFD model for heap bioleaching of chalcocite
M. J. Leahy, M. R. Davidson and M. P. Schwarz, see abstract and article, June 3, 2005, pp.C439--C457

A modified finite volume method incorporating radial basis functions for simulating diffusion
T. J. Moroney and I. W. Turner, see abstract and article, June 9, 2005, pp.C458--C471

Approximating functions of a large sparse positive definite matrix using a spectral splitting method
M. Ilic and I. W. Turner, see abstract and article, June 9, 2005, pp.C472--C487

Analysis of a discrete non-Markovian random walk approximation for the time fractional diffusion equation
F. Liu, S. Shen, V. Anh and I. Turner, see abstract and article, June 12, 2005, pp.C488--C504

Thin film models in a stochastic setting
T. Prvan and M. R. Osborne, see abstract and article, June 15, 2005, pp.C505--C515

Verifying convergence rates of discrete thin-plate splines in 3D.
Linda Stals and Stephen Roberts, see abstract and article, June 19, 2005, pp.C516--C529

A stochastic model of gene switches
Lucia Santoso, Hilary S. Booth, Conrad J. Burden and Markus Hegland, see abstract and article, June 29, 2005, pp.C530--C543

The method of particular solutions for the Helmholtz equation
G. E. Sneddon and W. W. Read, see abstract and article, June 29, 2005, pp.C544--C557

Adaptive finite element simulation of three-dimensional surface tension dominated free-surface flow problems
M. A. Walkley, P. H. Gaskell, P. K. Jimack, M. A. Kelmanson and J. L. Summers, see abstract and article, June 29, 2005, pp.C558--C571

Optimal sample length for calculating transfer functions from discrete experimental data
Scott Taylor, Nicholas Haritos and Krish Thiagarajan, see abstract and article, June 29, 2005, pp.C572--C587

Development of a 3D non-hydrostatic pressure model for free surface flows
J. W. Lee, M. D. Teubner, J. B. Nixon and P. M. Gill, see abstract and article, July 12, 2005, pp.C623--C636

Higher order accuracy in the gap-tooth scheme for large-scale dynamics using microscopic simulators
A. J. Roberts and I. G. Kevrekidis, see abstract and article, July 20, 2005, pp.C637--C657

Problem of close eigenvalues in the vibration testing of structures
V. Gershkovich and N. Haritos, see abstract and article, July 25, 2005, pp.C658--C671

Computation of flow behind three side-by-side cylinders of unequal/equal spacing
H. K. Virahsawmy, L. Chen, I. R. MacGillivray and J. Tu and Y. Zhou, see abstract and article, July 25, 2005, pp.C672--C689

Sloan iteration and Richardson extrapolation for Walsh series solutions of integral equations
W. F. Blyth and V. Uljanov, see abstract and article, July 26, 2005, pp.C690--C703

The statistical dynamics of turbulent Rossby wave flow over topography
T. J. O'Kane and J. S. Frederiksen, see abstract and article, July 27, 2005, pp.C704--C718

Parallel Jacobi methods for derivative-free optimization on parallel or distributed processors
I. D. Coope and M. S. Macklem, see abstract and article, July 28, 2005, pp.C719--C731

A faster algorithm for identification of an M-matrix
R. J. Wood and M. J. O'Neill, see abstract and article, July 29, 2005, pp.C732--C743

CFD simulation of dilute gas-solid two-phase flows with different solid size distributions in a curved $90^\circ $ duct bend
B. T. Kuan, see abstract and article, August 4, 2005, pp.C744--C763

Optimal strategies in political elections
D. Lesmono and E. J. Tonkes, see abstract and article, August 8, 2005, pp.C764--C785

Achieving Brouwer's law with high-order Stormer multistep methods
K. R. Grazier, W. I. Newman, James M. Hyman, Philip W. Sharp and David J. Goldstein, see abstract and article, August 23, 2005, pp.C786--C804

Modelling drop-drop interactions in an atomic force microscope
Steven L. Carnie, Derek Y. C. Chan and Rogerio Manica, see abstract and article, September 1, 2005, pp.C805--C819

Simulation of a turbulent premixed open V-shaped flame using contour advection with surgery
B. H. Y. Tang and C. K. Chan and J. S. L. Lam, see abstract and article, September 1, 2005, pp.C820--C838

Interior layer structure in the Newtonian blown film
J. J. Shepherd and J. C. Bennett, see abstract and article, September 1, 2005, pp.C839--C853

An angular spectral method for solution of the heat equation in spheroidal geometries
D. J. Ivers, see abstract and article, September 1, 2005, pp.C854--C870

Error analysis of an explicit finite difference approximation for the space fractional diffusion equation with insulated ends
S. Shen and F. Liu , see abstract and article, September 1, 2005, pp.C871--C887

Modelling the effect of proposed channel deepening on the tides in Port Phillip Bay
Joe Sampson, Alan Easton and Manmohan Singh, see abstract and article, September 6, 2005, pp.C888--C901

A numerical simulation of avascular tumour growth
Tan Liang Soon and Ang Keng Cheng, see abstract and article, September 7, 2005, pp.C902--C917

A comparison of staggered and non-staggered grid Navier--Stokes solutions for the 8:1 cavity natural convection flow
S. Armfield and R. Street , see abstract and article, September 12, 2005, pp.C918--C934

Algorithms for the recovery of Kohlrausch parameters from viscoelastic stress-strain data
Saiful A. Husain and R. S. Anderssen, see abstract and article, September 22, 2005, pp.C935--C955

Visualising energy data
Diane Donovan, Trevor Pickett and Richard Wilson, see abstract and article, September 22, 2005, pp.C956--C970

A note on the relation of Gaussian elimination to the conjugate directions algorithm
J. Tenne and S. W. Armfield , see abstract and article, October 7, 2005, pp.C971--C986

Instability in lateral dynamics of a metal strip in cold rolling
T. Tarnopolskaya, D. J. Gates, F. R. de Hoog and W. Y. D. Yuen, see abstract and article, October 7, 2005, pp.C987--C1000

An investigation into design for performance and code maintainability in high performance computing
S. M. Quenette, B. F. Appelbe, M. Gurnis, L. J. Hodkinson, L. Moresi and P. D. Sunter, see abstract and article, October 7, 2005, pp.C1001--C1016

Evaluation of a nonlinear reef parametrisation for steady flows
Lance Bode and Luciano B. Mason, see abstract and article, October 8, 2005, pp.C1017--C1034

Optimisation of a spline based Eulerian--Lagrangian transport solver
S. J. Leak, M. G. Trefry and F. P. Ruan, see abstract and article, October 9, 2005, pp.C1035--C1054

Infiltration from irrigation channels into soil with impermeable inclusions
Maria Lobo, David L. Clements and Nyoman Widana, see abstract and article, October 14, 2005, pp.C1055--C1068

Drag optimization for axisymmetric afterbodies with jet plume using computational fluid dynamics
Masoud Mirzaei and Sina Arabi, see abstract and article, October 14, 2005, pp.C1069--C1085

Long simulations of the Solar System: Brouwer's Law and chaos
K. R. Grazier, W. I. Newman, James M. Hyman and Philip. W. Sharp, see abstract and article, October 19, 2005, pp.C1086--C1103

Influence of bottom boundary condition on heat distribution within oxidizing heaps
J. Crawford and Y. A. Stepanyants, see abstract and article, October 20, 2005, pp.C1104--C1125

Series solutions for seepage in three dimensional aquifers
W. W. Read, S. R. Belward, P. J. Higgins and G. E. Sneddon, see abstract and article, October 21, 2005, pp.C1126--C1140

Software infrastructure for solving non-linear partial differential equations and its application to modelling crustal fault systems
L. Gross, P. Mora, E. Saez, D. Weatherley and H. Xing, see abstract and article, November 1, 2005, pp.C1141--C1154

Drying of a liquid droplet suspended in its own vapour
G. J. Oberman, T. W. Farrell and E. Sizgek, see abstract and article, November 5, 2005, pp.C1155--C1169

The topology of homogeneous isotropic turbulence with passive scalar transport
P. L. O'Neill and J. Soria, see abstract and article, November 5, 2005, pp.C1170--C1187

Numerical simulation of microbial depolymerization process of exogenous type
M. Watanabe and F. Kawai, see abstract and article, November 8, 2005, pp.C1188--C1204

Additive models in high dimensions
Markus Hegland and Vladimir Pestov, see abstract and article, November 14, 2005, pp.C1205--C1221

Accuracy assessment of solving pseudo compressible euler equations for steady subsonic flow on finite unstructured volumes
S. R. Sabbagh Yazdi and A. Hadian, see abstract and article, November 16, 2005, pp.C1222--C1238

Numerical modelling of the effect of operating parameters in the plastic blown film process
A. Khan, J. J. Shepherd and S. Bhattacharya, see abstract and article, November 17, 2005, pp.C1239--C1253

Effective simulation methods for polyelectrolytes in low dielectric solvents
M. O. Khan, G. Kennedy and D. Y. C. Chan, see abstract and article, November 17, 2005, pp.C1254--C1271

Optimising series solution methods for flow over topography---Part 1
P. J. Higgins, S. R. Belward and W. W. Read , see abstract and article, November 29, 2005, pp.C1272--C1285

Optimising series solution methods for flow over topography---Part 2
S. R. Belward, P. J. Higgins and W. W. Read, see abstract and article, November 29, 2005, pp.C1286--C1295

Computing the flow past a cylinder with hemispherical ends
G. J. Sheard and M. C. Thompson and K. Hourigan, see abstract and article, December 1, 2005, pp.C1296--C1310

Truss structural configuration optimization using the linear extended interior penalty function method
Wahyu Kuntjoro and Jamaluddin Mahmud, see abstract and article, January 6, 2006, pp.C1311--C1326

Some remarks on the inverse eigenvalue problem for real symmetric Toeplitz matrices
N. Li, see abstract and article, January 6, 2006, pp.C1327--C1335

Flow instability prediction in low-pressure subcooled boiling flows using computational fluid dynamics codes
E. M. Dilla and G. H. Yeoh and J. Y. Tu, see abstract and article, January 6, 2006, pp.C1336--C1352

On the transient modelling of hydro-elastic interaction of gravity waves with an underwater elastic structure
N. M. Sudharsan and K. Murali, see abstract and article, January 6, 2006, pp.C1353--C1370

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