University of Alberta

What is the PIMS YRC?The PIMS Young Researchers Conference in Mathematics and Statistics (PIMS YRC) is an annual event that provides a unique forum for young mathematicians across Canada to present their research and to collaborate with their peers...

Mathematical models have widely been used to predict, understand, and optimize complex physical processes in modeling and simulation of multiphase fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs. These models are important for understanding the fate and transport...

Cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) is a method for enhancing primary production from heavy oil reservoirs by producing sand aggressively along with the heavy oil. It has been applied with commercial success in the area surrounding...

Let D(c; r) be the smallest disk, with center c and radius r, containing all zeros of the polynomial p(z) = (z–z1)(z–z2) · · · (z–zn). In 1958, we conjectured that for every zero zk of p(z), the disk D(zk; r) contains at least one zero of the...

In this talk I will discuss some recent analytical and numerical results regarding global regularity for the 2D incompressible magnetohydrodynamics equations with partial dissipation, that is when the dissipation term is only present in either the...

The heat transfer problem in composite materials has been investigated which contains the nano-scale interface. A molecular dynamics-continuum coupled model is developed to study the heat transport from the macro- to the micro-scales. The model...

Industrial partners often have very high expectations concerning numerical modeling: accuracy, efficiency, robustness and, whenever possible, low computation costs and this, for very complex problems. In the last few years, we have concentrated our...

Ferrohydrodynamics describes the dynamics of ferrofluids -- colloids with nano-sized magnetic particles. Since its discovery in the 1960s, such fluids have found many applications in science and engineering. On the other hand, the physical modeling...

There are two competing descriptions of nematic liquid crystaldynamics: the Ericksen-Leslie director theory and the Eringenmicropolar approach. Up to this day, these two descriptions haveremained distinct in spite of several attempts to show that...

In this talk, we will focus on the global regularity problem concerning some generalized versions of the Boussinesq system. The problems are raised from a group of dissipative operators which are in the slightly super-critical regime. A generalized...