Newsgroups: comp.parallel,sci.math.research,uk.jobs.offered
From: C.Walshaw@gre.ac.uk
Reply-To: wc06%vogon@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Applied Maths Postdocs: Uni of Greenwich, London
Organization: School of Maths, University of Greenwich, U.K.
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 12:44:00 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Jan17.155337.24865@leeds.ac.uk>

UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH
            CENTRE FOR NUMERICAL MODELLING AND PROCESS ANALYSIS

The Centre is one of the largest research groups in  Europe  with
its focus upon computational modelling and software technologies.
It is led by five professors  (Mark  Cross,  Martin  Everett,  Ed
Galea, Brian Knight and Koulis Pericleous) with 15 other academic
and research staff, 30 PhD students and 60+ Masters students.

The Centre has  vacancies  for  FOUR  postdoctoral  fellows  with
appropriate research experience to work on projects involving:

	computational  modelling   of   magnetohydrodynamics   in
	materials/metals processing
	(funded by EPSRC)

        computational  modelling  of  metals  casting   processes
	(funded by EPSRC, BAe and Rolls Royce)

        computational  modelling  of  materials   processes   for
	electronics communication systems
	(funded by Govt SRB and STC)

        tools  and  techniques   for   parallelising   scientific
	software
	(funded by JISC).

The appointments are initially for a fixed term (eg. typically  2
years),  although  there  is potential eventually for much longer
contracts for appropriate  candidates.   Salaries  are  extremely
competitive and working conditions are excellent.  The Centre has
a large network  of  high  quality  workstations  with  excellent
visualisation  and video-making facilities.  It also has a number
of high performance parallel computing  systems  including  a  28
node  i860 based Transtech PARAMID with a peak performance of 1.4
Gflops.

Major projects at the Centre involve the development of:

PHYSICA, a multiphysics computational modelling software toolkit.
This   is   a   software  engineered  modular  toolkit  which  is
essentially object oriented and enables the simulation  of  fluid
flow,  heat transfer, electromagnetics, solid mechanics and their
interactions.  It is based upon novel finite volume  unstructured
mesh  techniques  which  are  both accurate and converge rapidly.
The toolkit will also be available  in  parallel  and  the  first
public  version  of PHYSICA will be available free in source code
to the academic community over internet  in  the  first  half  of
1995.

CAPTools, a software environment  to  automate  as  much  of  the
parallelisation  process  as  possible.   The  first  version  of
CAPTools is focused upon computational mechanics  codes.   It  is
based  upon  a  very  sophisticated dependence analysis, together
with user dialogue to help refine the dependence graph so  as  to
enable  a  highly  efficient  parallel  code  to then be produced
automatically.

Strategies  and  tools  for  the  mapping  of  unstructured  mesh
computational  mechanics  codes  onto  parallel  systems; notably
JOSTLE which is a highly advanced tool  for  partitioning  meshes
onto MIMD systems.

Computational modelling of

      -     fire spread in aircraft and other enclosures
      -     materials and metals processing
      -     electronic products manufacture
      -     flutter in aircraft wings
      -     turbulence exploiting fractals and LES techniques.

If you are interested in one of the above positions please either
contact or send your CV and letter of application to:

                           Professor Mark Cross
            Centre for Numerical Modelling and Process Analysis
                          University of Greenwich
                             Wellington Street
                             London SE18 6PF.

                       Tel:  44-(0)181-331-8702
                       Fax:  44-(0)181-331-8695
                       email:m.cross@gre.ac.uk


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Chris Walshaw,
School of Maths, Stats and Computing,		email:- C.Walshaw@gre.ac.uk
The University of Greenwich,			Tel:-   (UK) + 181-331 8142
Wellington Street, Woolwich,			FAX:-   (UK) + 181-331 8665
London, SE18 6PF.
United Kingdom



