Proceedings of the 7th Biennial Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference, Melbourne, Australia, September 2005.

Scientific Editors: Andrew Stacey, Bill Blyth and John Shepherd
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.

Analysis of a model for the treatment of wastewater by the activated sludge process
S. D. Watt and H. S. Sidhu and M. I. Nelson, see abstract and article, June 14, 2006, pp.C1--C18

Modelling a wool scour bowl
J. F. Caunce and S. I. Barry and G. N. Mercer and T. R. Marchant, see abstract and article, June 22, 2006, pp.C19--C33

A simple mathematical model of wool scouring
J. F. Caunce and S. I. Barry and G. N. Mercer, see abstract and article, June 22, 2006, pp.C34--C47

A fractional-order implicit difference approximation for the space-time fractional diffusion equation
F. Liu and P. Zhuang and V. Anh and I. Turner, see abstract and article, June 23, 2006, pp.C48--C68

Evaluation of the bi-phase composites failure model for finite element impact analyses of loaded plates
K. M. Mikkor and R. S. Thomson and I. Herszberg and A. P. Mouritz, see abstract and article, June 23, 2006, pp.C69--C85

Dynamics of a cable with an attached sliding mass
P. Williams, see abstract and article, July 7, 2006, pp.C86--C100

A Gauss--Lobatto quadrature method for solving optimal control problems
P. Williams, see abstract and article, July 24, 2006, pp.C101--C115

Conditional value-at-risk for water management in Lake Burley Griffin
R. B. Webby and J. Boland and P. G. Howlett and A. V. Metcalfe and T. Sritharan, see abstract and article, July 27, 2006, pp.C116--C136

Enhanced thermal performance of garments embedded with encapsulated phase change material
John A. Gear and Michael J. Lachut and Yan Ding , see abstract and article, July 29, 2006, pp.C137--C151

Materially-isospectral congruent membranes
H. P .W. Gottlieb, see abstract and article, August 1, 2006, pp.C152--C167

A computationally effective predictor-corrector method for simulating fractional order dynamical control system
C. Yang and F. Liu, see abstract and article, August 1, 2006, pp.C168--C184

Video analysis to understand e-learning of vector calculus
W. F. Blyth and D. Clarke and A. Labovic, see abstract and article, August 8, 2006, pp.C185--C199

Internal symmetric waves of two-layer fluids over an obstruction
H. J. Kim and W. S. Bae and J. W. Choi, see abstract and article, August 21, 2006, pp.C200--C215

Multi-disciplinary approach to teaching numerical methods to engineers using Matlab.
S. I.  Barry and T. Webb , see abstract and article, August 31, 2006, pp.C216--C230

Remote payload transportation using an aircraft-towed flexible cable system
D. E. Sgarioto and P. Williams and P. M. Trivailo, see abstract and article, September 11, 2006, pp.C231--C244

On approximate closed form solutions of linear ordinary differential equations
F. Viera , see abstract and article, September 18, 2006, pp.C245--C260

Trigonometric formulae?---No one uses them anymore
G. E. Sneddon and W. W. Read and S. R. Belward, see abstract and article, September 20, 2006, pp.C261--C276

A numerical study of non-Newtonian blood flow in stenosed coronary artery bypass with grafts
D. Poltem and B. Wiwatanapataphee and Y. H. Wu and Y. Lenbury , see abstract and article, October 2, 2006, pp.C277--C291

Simulation of high Reynolds number flow over a backward facing step using SPH
T. S. Ting and M. Prakash and P. W. Cleary and M. C. Thompson, see abstract and article, October 2, 2006, pp.C292--C309

Simulations of transonic flow fields around an elastic arrow wing
Eddie Ly and John A. Gear and Masato Tamayama , see abstract and article, October 2, 2006, pp.C310--C324

Analysis of the non-isothermal Newtonian model in the blown film process
J. C. Bennett and J. J. Shepherd, see abstract and article, October 2, 2006, pp.C325--C338

A heat transfer model describing burns to the skin from automotive airbags
G. N. Mercer and H. S. Sidhu, see abstract and article, October 3, 2006, pp.C339--C354

Uncovering the secrets to relieving stress: discrete element analysis of force chains in particulate media
Maya Muthuswamy and John Peters and Antoinette Tordesillas, see abstract and article, October 7, 2006, pp.C355--C372

Moving boundary shallow water flow above parabolic bottom topography
Joe Sampson and Alan Easton and Manmohan Singh, see abstract and article, October 16, 2006, pp.C373--C387

Fluid-structure interaction modelling of propellant combustion
C. Tsangalis and N. McLachlan and P. Trivailo , see abstract and article, October 16, 2006, pp.C388--C403

Computer simulation of polymethylmethacrylate bone cement flow through femoral canal and cancellous bone
S. Srimongkol and B. Wiwatanapataphee and Y. H. Wu, see abstract and article, October 23, 2006, pp.C404--C418

Minimising fourth order correlations improves latent semantic analysis performance
B. M. Pincombe , see abstract and article, October 26, 2006, pp.C419--C431

A two way particle mapping for calculation of the shear modulus of a spherical inclusion composite with inhomogeneous interphase
N. Lombardo, see abstract and article, December 15, 2006, pp.C432--C445

Boundary element computation of fresh water groundwater lenses
D. S. Holloway and L. K. Forbes , see abstract and article, December 15, 2006, pp.C446--C461

A dynamical systems model for fireline growth with suppression
R. O. Weber and H. S. Sidhu, see abstract and article, December 15, 2006, pp.C462--C474

The two-dimensional, finite, gas lubricated, slider bearing in slip flow
E. Aliu and J. J. Shepherd, see abstract and article, December 15, 2006, pp.C475--C491

The logistic population model with slowly varying carrying capacity
J. J. Shepherd and L. Stojkov, see abstract and article, January 4, 2007, pp.C492--C506

Modeling of non-Newtonian blood flow through a stenosed artery incorporating fluid-structure interaction
W. Y. Chan and Y. Ding and J. Y. Tu, see abstract and article, January 4, 2007, pp.C507--C523

Authentic assessment for advanced undergraduate students
D. G. Mallet , see abstract and article, January 5, 2007, pp.C524--C540

Slow variation in the Gompertz model
T. Grozdanovski and J. J. Shepherd, see abstract and article, January 5, 2007, pp.C541--C554

On improving the accuracy of simple aerial towed-cable system models
D. E. Sgarioto and P. Williams and P. M. Trivailo, see abstract and article, March 5, 2007, pp.C555--C569

Probabilistic modelling of automotive body joints
A. S. Blicblau and M. Singh and B. Strahan and C. Torpy , see abstract and article, March 5, 2007, pp.C570--C584

Modelling electricity power cuts in the UK
Owen Dafydd Jones, see abstract and article, March 8, 2007, pp.C585--C602

Drying of vegetation: how fast does the moisture go?
Simon D. Watt and Rodney O. Weber, see abstract and article, March 15, 2007, pp.C603--C614

A model of an aircraft towing a cable-body system
C. K. H. Chin and R. L. May, see abstract and article, April 9, 2007, pp.C615--C632

A Reynolds uniform scheme for singularly perturbed parabolic differential equation
X. Cai and F. Liu , see abstract and article, April 9, 2007, pp.C633--C648

Methods of aircraft trajectory optimisation in air combat
Istas F. Nusyirwan and Cees Bil , see abstract and article, April 9, 2007, pp.C649--C664

Mathematical study of the biodegradation of xenobiotic polymers with experimental data introduced into analysis
M. Watanabe and F. Kawai , see abstract and article, June 6, 2007, pp.C665--C681

Fracture modelling of composite marine T-Joint
H. C. H. Li and I. Herszberg and A. P. Mouritz and F. Dharmawan , see abstract and article, June 26, 2007, pp.C682--C694

Optimal three dimensional aircraft terrain following and collision avoidance
T. Sharma and P. Williams and C. Bil and A. Eberhard , see abstract and article, June 26, 2007, pp.C695--C711

Continuous time system identification using subspace methods
Rosmiwati Mohd-Mokhtar and Liuping Wang, see abstract and article, June 26, 2007, pp.C712--C732

Energy transduction analyses of piezoelectric based vibration control of smart structures
J. L. Cao and S. John and T. Molyneaux , see abstract and article, June 26, 2007, pp.C733--C759

Role of mission criticality and component reliability in defining and evaluating system effectiveness
A. Bender and F. Bowden and A. Pincombe and P. Williams, see abstract and article, June 26, 2007, pp.C760--C775

Fluid drop shape determination by the Rayleigh--Ritz minimization method
F. P.-A. Cortat and S. J. Miklavcic , see abstract and article, June 26, 2007, pp.C776--C802

Bifurcation and periodic points in the $l_{1}$-norm minimization problem
R. D. Hill, see abstract and article, July 6, 2007, pp.C803--C821

Numerical study of the effect of trailing edge bluntness on highly turbulent hydrofoil flow
T. Do and L. Chen and J. Tu, see abstract and article, July 13, 2007, pp.C822--C839

Preparation of students for tertiary studies requiring mathematics
S. R. Belward and D. F. T. Mullamphy and W. W. Read and G. E. Sneddon , see abstract and article, July 17, 2007, pp.C840--C857

Mathematical analysis of the effect of tectonic stress on the stability of underground tunnels
T. Hon and Y. H. Wu and B. Wiwatanapataphee and C. X. Yang, see abstract and article, July 18, 2007, pp.C858--C872

Different numerical techniques for the solution of transcendental eigenvalue problem in transmission line bundles
Himanshu Verma and Peter Hagedorn, see abstract and article, July 20, 2007, pp.C873--C893

Application of the variational calculus to wetting phenomena in chemical engineering
F. P.-A. Cortat and S. J. Miklavcic, see abstract and article, July 20, 2007, pp.C894--C914

Modal analysis of a small ship sea keeping trial
A. Metcalfe and L. Maurits and T. Svenson and R. Thach and G. E. Hearn , see abstract and article, July 30, 2007, pp.C915--C933

Creating mathematical learning resources---combining audio and visual components
Elahe Aminifar and Anne Porter and Richard Caladine and Mark I. Nelson , see abstract and article, July 30, 2007, pp.C934--C955

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