With this preprint series the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science provides the opportunity for interested parties to keep abreast of the latest research carried out in the Department. To receive a copy of one of our preprints, please send a message to mems@rice.edu.

2003-001   K. Stein, T. Tezduyar, and R. Benney

Computational Methods for Modeling Parachute Systems

2003-002   S. Scott Collis

Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Turbulence Simulation

2003-003   M.M. Carroll

Derivatives of the Rotation and Stretch Tensors

2003-004   M.M. Carroll

The Derivative of a Function of a Symmetric Tensor

2003-005   Srinivas Ramakrishnan, S. Scott Collis

Turbulence Control Using the Variational Multi-Scale (VMS) Method

2003-006   Guoquan Chen, S. Scott Collis

Optimal Control For Burgers Flow Using the Discontinuous Galerkin Method

2003-007   S. Scott Collis, Kaveh Ghayour

Discontinuous Galerkin Methods For Compressible DNS

2003-008   Tayfun E. Tezduyar

Computation of Moving Boundaries and Interfaces and Stabilization

Parameters

2003-009   T. E. Tezduyar and S. Sathe

Stabilization Parameters in SUPG and PSPG Formulations

2003-010   K. Stein, T. Tezduyar, S. Sathe,

M. Senga, C. Ozcan, T. Soltys,

V. Kumar, R. Benney and R. Charles

Simulation of Parachute Dynamics During Control Line Input

Operations

2003-011   S. Scott Collis and Matthias Heinkenschloss

Analysis of the Streamline Upwind/Petrov Galerkin Method Applied to the Solution of Optimal Control Problems

2003-012   Tayfun E. Tezduyar and Sunil Sathe

Enhanced-Approximation Linear Solution Technique (EALST)

2003-013   Keith Stein, T. E. Tezduyar and Richard Benney

Automatic Mesh Update with the Solid-Extension Mesh Moving Technique

2003-014   Tayfun E. Tezduyar and Sunil Sathe

Enhanced-Discretization Space-Time Technique (EDSTT)

2003-015   Tayfun E. Tezduyar

Calculation of the Stabilization Parameters in Finite Element Formulations of Flow Problems

2003-016   Tayfun E. Tezduyar

Finite Element Computational Methods for Moving Boundaries and Interfaces

2003-017   Tayfun E. Tezduyar

Stabilized Finite Element Methods for Computation of Flows with Moving Boundaries and Interfaces

2003-018   Lucia Catabriga, Alvaro L.G.A. Coutinho and

Tayfun E. Tezduyar

Finite Element SUPG Parameters Computed From Local Edge Matrices for Compressible Flows

2003-019   M.M. Carroll

On Generating Isochoric Finite Deformations

2003-020   Lucia Catabriga, Alvaro L.G.A. Coutinho and

Tayfun E. Tezduyar

Finite Element SUPG Parameters Computed from Local DOF-Matrices for Compressible Flows

2003-021   V.K. Agarwal and M.M. Carroll

Admissibility Conditions on Principal Strain Invariants

2003-022   J. Ed Akin and Tayfun E. Tezduyar

Calculation of the Advective Limit of the SUPG Stabilization Parameter for Linear and Higher-Order Elements

2003-023   Nan Z. Carr and Rex B. McLellan

The Thermodynamic and Kinetic Behavior of Metal-Vacancy-Hydrogen Systems Part I: Thermodynamic Behavior

2003-024   Nan Z. Carr and Rex B. McLellan

The Thermodynamic and Kinetic Behavior of Metal-Vacancy-Hydrogen Systems Part II: Kinetic Behavior

2003-025   P.D. Spanos, P. Cacciola, and J. Redhorse

Random vibration of SMA systems via Preisach formalism