This event will be held at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, along two weeks (16-27, March 2015).

    MODCLIM Training School 2015  includes the following compact courses on the first week, March 16-20:

    1. Introduction to continuum mechanics with application to the medical treatment of eye (corneal topography).

        Dr. Lukasz Plociniczak - Wroclaw University of Technology.

    2. Modelling and optimization of wind farms/ solar farms.

        Dr. Gustavo Montero, Dr. Felipe Diaz, Dr. Eduardo Barrera - University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

    and the compact courses on the second week, March 23-27, are:

    3. Mathematical models for semiconductor industry.

        Dr. Vittorio Romano - Università di Catania

    4. Ecomathematics, mathematical models in ecology/ environmental engineering.

        Dr. Virpi Junttila - Lappeenranta University of Technology.

 Following is the list of selected students for the 1st Training School 2015 approved by the MODCLIM Selection and Steering committees:

Moreover, Ms. Ghezlane Halhoul Merabet from the Mohammed V University of Rabat (Soussi), participates as invited student to the Training School 2015. 

MODCLIM INTERMEDIATE PROJECT ASSIGNMENT 2015

Once the Training School 2015 has finished, the lecturers will define a project assignment that will consist of (1) studying some materials (2) working on a computational task, typically like an extended and more demanding exercise and (3) editing a project report. The projects will represent the Training School topics:

1. Modelling eye structure
2. Wind energy
3. Semiconductors (TBD)
4. Environment, “Climate Friendly Forest Owner”

The project titles and descriptions will be published on the MODCLIM Forum at the beginning of April 2015. Each MODCLIM student will be assigned to one project group.

Each student should indicate (1) his/her preferred choice and (2) the secondary choice, using the form available in the MODCLIM webpage until April 9th at the latest. The Coordinators will assign the project teams based on student preferences. If some topic becomes too crowded, we will suggest some students to move to the second option.

From April to June of 2015, the teams will work on their problem by communicating via internet, skype etc. The MODCLIM lecturers will provide some remote guidance and supervision of the project team.

The student team should select one among themselves to act as the team leader and contact person to communicate with the lecturer. The team should self-organize, divide sub tasks, agree who will edit the final report etc.

INTERMEDIATE PROJEC TEAMS - 2015

According to the preferences of the students, on 13th of April of 2015 were assigned the four intermediate project teams as follows: 

This event will be a Workshop on Computational and Modelling Problems for Industry, and it will be held at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland (7th to 11th, September 2015).

The problems to be developed in the workshop are the following:

1. How to measure the intra-ocular pressure.

   Dr. Lukasz Plociniczak - Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland)

The intra-ocular pressure (IOP) is one of the most important parameters which are relevant for a proper eye care. It is essentially a pressure of a fluid that fills the interior chambers of the eye and it is measured in mmHg. Ophthalmologists agree that the range of IOP for normal and healthy eyes lies between 10 and 20 mmHg with the mean around 15-16mmHg. The value of IOP that is located above the aforementioned normal range may be an indicator of a development of a disease called the glaucoma which in turn may lead to a vision damage and even blindness. Therefore, the determination of a true value of IOP is crucial for diagnosing this very serious sight disorder.

2. Thrusters with additional stators.

   Dr. Joonas Sorvari - Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland)

Today’s tunnel thrusters in ships have only one fix pitch or controllable pitch propeller. With this configuration thruster outflow have tangential component which creates thrust and radial component creating mainly losses. Objective is to design stator blades which would enhance the efficiency of the propeller, by using this radial component, in order to create additional thrust.

3. Solar farm modeling.

   Dr. Felipe Diaz - University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

The problem to be solved is the modeling of a photovoltaic farm as arises in real life. Placing it in different locations such as level ground, a horizontal or sloping roof shall be considered.

4. Detection and compensation of Vortex Induced Vibrations.

   Dr. Sergey Lupuleac - Saint Petersburg State Polytecnical University (Russia)

As a part of deliveries of work over riser systems FMC Technologies provide riser monitoring systems. The systems perform measurements of load and deformation at specified positions on the work-­‐over systems and on permanent equipment such as subsea trees and wellheads. Based on load input from sensors the FMC monitoring system can continuously calculate load distributions in lower stack.

5. Non-aerobic water purification reactor.

   Dr. Tuomo Kauranne - Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland)

Anaerobic wastewater purification processes have been increasingly used in the last few decades. These processes are important because they have positive effects: depollution of higher organic loading, which includes low sludge production and high pathogen removal, methane gas production and low energy consumption. The increased interest in these processes has stimulated mathematical modelling, because it is usually much faster and less expensive to model a system and to simulate its operation than to perform laboratory experiments. Here we need to analyse how mathematical descriptions of bacterial population dynamics can model real data. Parameters which are simultaneously determined using information from the experiments have more reliable estimates. We ask the group to construct a model to predict the outlet Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) with respect to varying operational parameters such as organic loading, COD/ sulphate ratio and reaction time and compare it with actual results.

6. Performance of a pn junction in a solar cell.

   Dr. Massimo Camarda - Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland)

The project will concentrate on modeling and performance optimization of a semiconductor device, focusing on a pn junction, which is a key component in solar cells.

7. Mathematical modeling of displacements and thermal stresses in anisotropic materials in cooling.

   Dr. Jari Järvinen - CSC, Finish IT Center for Science

In this theme, the mathematical equations for transient and coupled heat transfer, displacements and thermal stresses are formulated for isotropic/anisotropic 3D and axi-symmetric solid material (sapphire) during the cooling. It is assumed, that the solid is initially at temperature close to its melting point temperature, and the cooling takes place until the solid is at room temperature. The cooling is organized with decreasing heater power (heat source) in the system, or with decreasing temperature (transient Dirichlet) boundary condition on the external wall of the system.

Following is the list of participants - instructors, expert contributors and students- who have attended to the Workshop of Computational and Modeling Problems for Industry:

Mr. Bachir Nail and Mr. Hakim Bagua, from the University of Djelfa (Algeria), have attended to this MODCLIM event as invited students by the Department of Mathematics and Physics (LUT, Finland)). 

This event will be held at University of Catania, Italy, along two weeks (14-27, February 2016).

MODCLIM Training School 2016 includes the following compact courses on the first week, February 15-19:

    1. Extracting information from data: Principal component analysis, robustness, and outlier detection.

        Dr. M. Rosário Oliveira - Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.

    2. Image Analysis. Focus on image restoration based on variational models.

        Dr. Susana Serna - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

    and the compact courses on the second week, February 22-26, are:

    3. Smoothed particle hydrodynamics for non Newtonian fluids and applications.

        Dr. Giuseppe Bilotta - Università degli Studi di Catania.

    4. Dynamic Network optimization and applications in civil security.

        Dr. Jan Ohst - Universität Koblenz-Landau.

Following is the list of students involved in the Training School 2016 approved by the MODCLIM Selection and Steering committees:

MODCLIM INTERMEDIATE PROJECT ASSIGNMENT 2016

Each of the Training school lecturers will define a project assignment that will consist of (1) studying some materials (2) working on a computational task, typically like extended and more demanding exercise and (3) editing a project report. The projects will represent the Training School 2016 topics:

INTERMEDIATE PROJEC TEAMS - 2016

According to the preferences of the students, on 13th of March of 2016 were assigned the four intermediate project teams as follows:

Moreover, two students from the University of Djelfa (Algeria, which is an Associated Entity to MODCLIM Project) have applied for participation in the Intermediate Project Teams 2016, and they have been accepted and involved in the Project Teams "Extracting information from data: Principal Component Analysis, Robustness, and Outlier Detection" and "Dynamic network optimization and applications in Civil Security". Both students have attended (as invited students) to the Problem Solving Workshop 2015 (Lappeenranta University of Technology, September 2015).