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Board of Directors ........................................................... 4Introduction by the Director ........................................... 5Achievements During 2007 .............................................. 6Environmental Fluid Mechanics Division ....................... 7Damage Mechanics Division ........................................... 9Industrial Research Division ........................................ 11Information and Communication Engineering Division ..................................................... 12Publishing ...................................................................... 14

Chapters in books ............................................................................ 14Edited books ..................................................................................... 14International journals ...................................................................... 16Papers in journals ............................................................................ 16Papers in conferences ..................................................................... 17

Director of WIT .............................................................. 19Senior Staff ..................................................................... 20

William R Blain ................................................................................. 20Viktor Popov ...................................................................................... 20Robert A Adey ................................................................................... 21Andres Peratta ................................................................................... 21Alexander Galybin ............................................................................ 21

Adjunct Staff ................................................................... 22John Baynham .................................................................................. 22Geoffrey Broadbent .......................................................................... 22Alex Cheng ........................................................................................ 22Jerry J Connor ................................................................................... 22Tom Curtin ......................................................................................... 23Gilbert De Mey ................................................................................... 23Patrick de Wilde ................................................................................ 23

Kay Hameyer ..................................................................................... 23Olf Herbarth ....................................................................................... 24Santiago Hernandez ......................................................................... 24Ted Hromadka ................................................................................... 24Athanassios Kungolos ...................................................................... 25Andrea Mammoli .............................................................................. 25Konrad Morgan ................................................................................. 26Dragan Poljak .................................................................................... 26Eckart Schnack ................................................................................. 26Charles Shoniregun .......................................................................... 26Dmitry Sitnikov .................................................................................. 27Antonio Tadeu ................................................................................... 27Alessandro Zanasi ............................................................................. 27

Accommodation ............................................................. 28Research Degrees .......................................................... 30Prigogine Awards 2007 .................................................. 32Eminent Scientist Awards ............................................. 34

Jan Kretzschmar ............................................................................... 34Michele Maugeri ............................................................................... 34Andrea Mammoli ............................................................................. 34Luigia Binda ....................................................................................... 35

Hromadka Prize ............................................................. 35Fellows of Wessex Institute ........................................... 36Conferences Organised by WIT .................................... 36Advanced Courses at WIT ............................................. 38Wessex Institute Advanced Science Seminar Programme ..................................................................... 38New Link Agreements .................................................... 39

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WESSEX INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

DIRECTOR

Professor Carlos A Brebbia

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Professor Geoffrey BroadbentProfessor Alex Cheng

Professor Jerry J ConnorProfessor Patrick de Wilde

Professor Santiago HernandezProfessor Ted HromadkaProfessor Basil LeftherisProfessor George PinderProfessor Matiur RahmanProfessor Eckart SchnackProfessor George SymmProfessor Antonio Tadeu

Professor Enzo TiezziProfessor Hugh Tottenham



Carlos Brebbia. Director of WIT

INTRODUCTION BY THE DIRECTOR

The year 2007 has been another year of achievements for Wessex Institute. Improvements in the infrastructure of our Campus were matched by a series of successful projects and training programmes.

Our policy of stressing quality over numbers in a very competitive environment has produced excellent results.

Prominent among our achievements has been a substantial number of new contracts, many of them from industry, which is a reflection of the excellence of our research. It is without doubt a source of pride for any research institution to be able to count on growing industrial support.

2007 also has seen further developments in our publishing activities, with the growth of our Electronic publishing and the eLibrary, and the consolidation of our recently launched journals. Additional content continues to be included on our Website and plans are well advanced to make these resources more widely available to the international scientific community.

Our training has continued to be a source of new developments and ideas, some of which will give rise to further industrial work and the students graduating in 2007 are testimony to the high quality of research carried out at WIT. The students registered at the Institute are but an indication of the numerous other researchers who have visited the Lodge in 2007 interacting with our activities and, in particular, our research programmes.

Our conference and seminar programmes continue to produce meetings of an advanced nature, many of them in association with other academic and research organisations throughout the world.

All these activities are part of WIT’s strategy to become a Centre for Knowledge Transfer at international level and all are equally important in shaping the future of our Institute.

We are grateful to all our colleagues and associates from all over the world who continue to support Wessex Institute. We recognise that we would not have been able to prosper without their help.

Carlos A Brebbia

Director


ACHIEVEMENTS DURING 2007

In 2007, the Wessex Institute has continued to expand its activities in all academic areas including additional facilities on Campus. The main achievements are as follows:

The current research programmes at this Institute continues to be supported by a series of research organisation including the EU, EPSRC, NATO, industry and other prestigious institutions.

23 International Conferences were organized by WIT in 2007. These were held in different locations in Europe an the USA in association with different organizations and universities.

A number of Higher Degrees were awarded to successful Master candidates on completion of their research thesis.

The Transactions of the Wessex Institute of Technology continues to expand online.

The Senior Prigogine Medal, in memory of the late Professor Prigogine, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was awarded to Prof Robert Ulanowicz, University of Maryland.

Many scientists who visited WIT during the year presented short courses and seminars on a variety of topics.

The campus continues to expand with several building projects currently underway.

Two Hromadka Prizes were awarded at two Water Resources conferences.


ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS DIVISION

The work of this Division is dedicated to the modelling of complex environmental and fluid dynamics related to science and engineering. The division is headed by Prof

Viktor Popov.

Current projects include the following:

“Food & Fecundity” sponsored by the European Union Framework VI, Food Quality and Safety.

The division is the leader of the Work Package: Risk assessment of pharmaceutical products in food and environment.

The F&F project (Pharmaceutical products in the environment: Development and employment of novel methods for assessing their origin, fate and effects on human fecundity) intends to integrate research groups from different disciplines (risk assessors & managers, clinical epidemiologists, endocrinologist, biochemists, as well as experts in biochemical and chemical diagnostics) for a better understanding of the extent of the problem. WIT’s part in the project focuses on the risk assessment of pharmaceutical products in food and in the environment.

“Sustainable management of the international waters – Prespa Lake”, sponsored by the NATO Programme for Security Through Science.

Prof Popov, Head of the Division, is the Project Director. The Lakes Prespa and Ohrid form a unique hydrological system where the water from the Prespa Lake, which is at 850 m above sea level, drains through the carbonate rocks of the Galichica Mountain into

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Ohrid Lake, which is at 695 m asl. In the recent years a steady drop in the water level has been recorded and the water level stands at the moment approximately seven metres below the highest level recorded.

The research study concentrates: (i) collection of hydrometeorological parameters during one year in order to calculate the water losses through the bottom of the Lake; (ii) tracer experiments in order to obtain more accurate information on the hydraulic connection between the lakes; (iii) numerical modelling in order to have a better understanding of hydrology of the catchment area.

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Temperature distribution in cod filets transported in a styrofoam box

“CHILL-ON” sponsored by the European Commission, FP6 – Food Quality and Safety.

The main goal of the CHILL-ON Integrated Project is the improvement of quality and safety information, transparency and traceability of the chilled/frozen supply food chain by developing cost effective technologies, devices and approaches for continuous monitoring and recording of the relevant data and processing the data for information management throughout the entire supply chain.

The Risk Assessment Work Package coordinated by WIT includes the following specific tasks: (i) Risk assessment of microbial and the

development of a software tool; Implementation of novel/quantitative modules in the Decision Support System; (ii) Improvement of packaging design, transport and storage (3D models of heat and mass transfer including food structure and mixed culture modelling); (iii) Risk assessment for the Chill On concept; (iv) Supply Chain Assessment.



“RECAPO” sponsored by the European Commission, – Specific Support Action.

There are participants from three countries. The main goal in the proposed project is reinforcement of the research capacities of the Department of Polymer Engineering (DPE) at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Skopje, R. Macedonia, and to promote this Department as a certified reference institution.

This Division is involved in the development of complex computational methods, including boundary element techniques, BEM, for stress analysis problems. The division develops BEM

type approaches to stress identification in engineering and geophysical ill-posed problems that require non-classical formulations. Other directions include modelling of crack propagation under different types of loads and geometries in heterogeneous and fragmented materials such as rocks, ceramics, concretes, etc to provide accurate and fast analysis of fracture characteristics in diverse problems of civil engineering and mining. The division is head by Prof Alex Galybin.

Current projects include the following:

“Investigation of plane elastic boundary value problems with imperfect boundary conditions”

The project aims to complement the mathematical theory of elasticity by investigating boundary value problems formulated in terms of stress/displacement/force orientations. There is a strong demand from Engineering and Geophysics to investigate these types of problems. The project will stimulate the development of new approaches in diverse subjects ranging across reconstruction of tectonic stresses, fracture monitoring and strain-stress measurements.

DAMAGE MECHANICS DIVISION


Figure 1 Pattern of stress trajectories (left) and map of maximum shear

stress (right) near Sumatra

DAMAGE MECHANICS DIVISION

“Development of the stress trajectories element method (STEM)” funded by the EPSRC.

The aim of the project is the development of theory and numerical techniques for the determination of stresses acting within a solid body caused by applied forces or contacts with other solids. The key innovation of this proposal is the investigation of consistency between constitutive equations and stress trajectories. In general, these cannot be given simultaneously and either of them could be used with equations of equilibrium to form a closed system of partial differential equations. We address three essentially different cases when stress trajectories are known (i) everywhere inside the domain; (ii) at discrete points inside the domain; (iii) on the boundary. In all these cases the stress trajectory concept is used as a unified approach; therefore the method proposed in this application is referred to as the stress trajectories element method, STEM.

The research programme includes a thorough analysis of all situations and the application of the STEM to the problem of stress field identification in stable blocks of lithosphere.

“Development of direct approaches to tectonic stresses modelling” in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Science.

This project deals with non-traditional approaches for stress reconstruction in different region of the Earth’s crust. It is based on the investigation of stress fields near margins of tectonic plates, which involves formulation of mechanically consistent models based on the analysis of observations of stress orientations. The projects will increase our understanding of the process of tsunami initiation and will contribute to the development of early warning systems. Preliminary results for the Sumatra region are shown in Fig 1.


The Industrial Research Division works on solving problems of practical importance. It also trains professional engineers through an intensive programme of the latest techniques for advanced

engineering design. The division is headed by Dr Robert Adey.

Recent and current projects include the following:

Naturalhy – “Preparing for the hydrogen economy by using the existing natural gas system as a catalyst”

The main objective of NATURALHY is to prepare EU countries for the hydrogen economy by identifying and removing the potential barriers regarding the introduction of hydrogen into society, using the extensive, existing natural gas system. The basic concept of the project is the smooth and short term introduction of hydrogen, at relatively low cost, by using the existing natural gas system to carry and distribute mixtures of natural gas and hydrogen. The research focuses on investigating how hydrogen will affect the integrity and durability of pipelines in particular crack growth and corrosion.

Fracture Mechanics and Crack Propagation – supported by different industrial partners

This work is of fundamental importance for product durability prediction. It is based on original methodologies developed at WIT. The resulting software products provide a comprehensive tool for the assessment of the residual strength of damaged structures and the risk of failure. It can be used as part of the design process to predict the impact on components and structures of defects and damage caused by service loads, manufacturing and production processes as well as material defects.

Cathodic Protection – supported by several industries

The research concentrates on the accurate prediction of corrosion and the development of effective control systems to protect structures and predict their performance over their life-cycle. The Division leads the world in research related to simulating galvanic corrosion, optimizing CP system design, reducing interference, and electric and magnetic field production. There are many important applications of this research in Offshore and Naval structures as well as underground infrastructure systems.

Aircraft Corrosion

The Division is a key participant in the EU project SICOM which aims to develop numerical models capable of simulating corrosion in aircraft structures. A number of different types of models covering typical corrosion found in aircraft will be developed and upscaled for application to structural elements of aircraft. The influence of surface treatment on modelling results will be included with regard to inhibitor release from protection systems, role of clad layer and oxide degrading effects. A decision support tool will be established to enable exploitation and implementation of the project results in scientific and technical applications.

SICOM will provide models that will become an essential part of future predictive maintenance concepts to avoid unanticipated and unscheduled maintenance with high costs. Data from monitoring systems and non-destructive inspection can be used as model input. Models output will be utilised for the repair decision process or can supply structural integrity concepts and hereby fill the gap between monitoring or inspection and calculation of the structural impact of corrosion. Aircraft development costs will be reduced through saving on testing time and quantity. The prediction models can be combined with expert systems and databases for a more efficient and reliable development and selection of materials.

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH DIVISION


The Division is concerned with a variety of areas oriented to computational modelling including Mobile and Wireless Communication systems, Electromagnetics and their environmental

effects, Management Information Systems, Database and Data Mining, and Information Security. The head of the division is Dr Andrés Peratta.

Current projects include the following research and training programmes:

Communications Engineering

A number of projects specifically associated with high frequency radiation sources and their effect on the human body are currently being carried out by a group of researchers. The purpose of the work is to develop efficient computational models and algorithms for the prediction of electromagnetic fields and specific absorption ratios in the human body in the high frequency range. In addition, optimisation procedures for the location of radiation sources are also being developed.

Human Body Exposure to ELF Electromagnetic fields

The project involves the development of different computational models and algorithms for the assessment of human exposure to Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Electromagnetic fields. Accurate and efficient computational simulation allowed us to detect common situations in which the induced currents inside the body are well above current standards.

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING DIVISION


Computational algorithms for Large Scale numerical problems

The project is involved with the development of algorithms of linear complexity for solving large scale models with Boundary Element Methods applied to Electromagnetic problems. The techniques under study include Fast Multipole Methods, Low Rank Approximation, Multi-grid and Multi-Domain decomposition.

NaturalHy

The division has recently started to collaborate with the Industrial Research Division in this EU project in the computational modelling aspects of the cathodic protection system for large pipelines. The main objectives in this sub-project are the forward and reverse electric modelling of the cathodic protection system in pipelines extending approximately 600 km.

The forward modelling is for analysing “what-if” scenarios, while the inverse modelling allows to detect the size and location of defects in the coating present in the pipeline, by processing the currents and voltages measured in the anodes. The pipeline may interfere with other metallic structures buried in the ground, as well as with other cathodic protection systems. In addition, the modelling approach considers non-uniform terrain as a heterogeneous multi-layered media.

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING DIVISION

Forest Fires

The project is devoted to the computational modelling of forest fires propagation processes in hilly heterogeneous landscapes. The model is based on a bottom-up approach, i.e. gigascopic characteristics of burning forests such as fire front speed, drying front, and fire-branches in a scale of several kilometers, are derived in terms of microscopic fundamental laws of combustion, heat transfer and fluid dynamics.

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PUBLISHING

C A Brebbia, Modelling in Medicine and Biology VII, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

C A Brebbia, Structural Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture X, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

C A Brebbia, Urban Transport XIII, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKSA Peratta, V Popov, ‘Modelling flow and solute transport in fractured porous media’, Domain Decomposition Techniques for Boundary Elements – Application to Fluid Flow, eds V Popov, H Power, L Skerget, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

B Natalini, V Popov, ‘Computational implementation for 3D problems’, Domain Decomposition Techniques for Boundary Elements – Application to Fluid Flow, eds V Popov, H Power, L Skerget, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

EDITED BOOKSC A Borrego, C A Brebbia, Air Pollution XV, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

C A Brebbia, Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures VI, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

C A Brebbia, Environmental Health Risk IV, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

C A Brebbia, G M Carlomagno, Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements XIII, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

C A Brebbia, S Hernandez, The Art of Resisting Extreme Natural Forces, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

C A Brebbia, K L Katsifarakis, River Basin Management IV, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

C A Brebbia, A G Kungolos, Water Resources Management IV, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.


PUBLISHING

C A Brebbia, A A Motta, Computational Ballistics III, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

C A Brebbia, D Poljak, V Popov, Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods XXIX, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

C A Brebbia, V Popov, Energy and Sustainability, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

V G DeGiorgi, C A Brebbia, R A Adey, Simulation of Electrochemical Processes II, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

J T M De Hosson, C A Brebbia, S-I Nishida, Computer Methods and Experimental Measurements for Surface Effects and Contact Mechanics VIII, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

M Guarascio, C A Brebbia, F Garzia, Safety and Security Engineering II, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

S Hernandez, C A Brebbia, Computer Aided Optimum Design in Engineering X, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

A G Kungolos, C A Brebbia, E Beriatos, Sustainable Development and Planning III Vol 1 & 2, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

A A Mammoli, C A Brebbia, Computational Methods and Experiments in Materials Characterisation III, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

A A Mammoli, C A Brebbia, Computational Methods in Multiphase Flow IV, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

V Popov, H Power, L Skerget, Domain Decomposition Techniques for Boundary Elements, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

E Tiezzi, J C Marques, C A Brebbia, S E Jorgensen, Ecosystems and Sustainable Development VI, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

A Zanasi, C A Brebbia, N F F Ebecken, Data Mining VIII, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.

S K Chakrabarti, C A Brebbia, Fluid Structure Interaction and Moving Boundary Problems IV, WIT Press, Southampton and Boston 2007.


PUBLISHING

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

International Journal of Ecodynamics

This journal covers all aspects of ecosystems and sustainable development, ranging from physical sciences to economics and epistemology. Ecodynamics aims to relate ecosystems to evolutionary thermodynamics in order to arrive at satisfactory solutions for sustainable development. It also reveals new avenues which lead to an increased understanding of the relationship between arts and sciences.

International Journal of Sustainable Planning and Development

This journal is an interdisciplinary forum for all scientist and practitioners specializing in the wide range of social and technical topics gathered around the core subject of sustainable development and planning. It covers environmental design, planning and management, spatial planning and sustainable development in an integrated way as well as in accordance with the principles of sustainability.

International Journal of Design & Nature

This journal, launched in 2007, acts as a channel of communication for researchers from around the world working on a variety of studies involving nature and its significance to modern scientific thought and design. These studies have demonstrated the rich diversity of the natural world.

PAPERS IN JOURNALS

V Amoruso, G Calo, F Lattarulo, D Poljak, A Peratta, C Gonzalez, ‘A comparative study on the induced current density in humans exposed to ELF electric field, Journal of Communications Software and Systems, 2007, 3(1), 17-25.

H Dodig, A Peratta, D Poljak, ‘Analysis method for the heating of the human eye exposed to high frequency electromagnetic fields’, Journal of Communications Software and Systems, 2007, 3(1), 3-10.

A Galybin, ‘An inverse problem of elastostatics in mechanics of composites’, Composite Science and Technology, 2007, doi:10.1016.

C Gonzalez, A Peratta, D Poljak, ‘Boundary element modelling of the realistic human body exposed to extremely low frequency (ELF) electric fields: computational and geometrical aspects’, IEEE Trans on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 2007, 49(1), 153-162.

R Gospavic, V Popov, M Sreckovic, C S Chen, ‘DRM-MD approach for modelling laser-material interaction with axial symmetry’, International Journal of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 2007, 31, 200-208.

R Gospavic, V Popov, G Todorovic, ‘Boundary element – dual reciprocity formulation for bound electron states in semiconductor quantum wires’, published online Computer Physics Communications, 2007.

S A Mukhamediev, A Galybin, ‘Determination of stresses from the stress trajectory pattern in a plane elastic domain,’ Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 2007, 12, 75-106.

B Natalini, V Popov, ‘Boundary element formulation for flow in unsaturated porous media’, International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Engineering Sciences, 2007, 1, 131-144.


PUBLISHING

B Natalini, V Popov, ‘On the optimal implementation of the dual reciprocity method – multi domain approach for 3D problems’, International Journal of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 2007, 31, 275-287.

A Peratta, C Gonzalez, D Poljak, ‘Current density induced in the human body due to power distributions lines using the BEM’, Journal of Communications Software and Systems, 3(1) 11-16, 2007.

A Peratta, V Popov, ‘Hybrid BEM for the early stage of unsteady transport processes’, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering’, 2007, 69, 1869-1897.

D Poljak, S Antonijevic, C A Brebbia, ‘Time domain modelling of thin wire arrays in the presence of a two media configuration using the Boundary Element Analysis’, International Journal of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 2007, 31, 706-712.

V Tomenko, S Ahmed, V Popov, ‘Modelling constructed wetland treatment system performance’, Ecological Modelling, 2007, 205, 355-364.

PAPERS IN CONFERENCES

E Al-Bassam, V Popov, A Khan, ‘Air quality in vicinity of a government school in Kuwait’, Air Pollution XV, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

J Baynham, R Adey, V Murugaian, D Williams, ‘Simulating electro-coating of automotive body parts using BEM’, Electrocor II, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

D Cavka, D Poljak, A Peratta, ‘Finite element model f the human head exposed to electrostatic field generated by video display units’, 15th International Conference on Software Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Split, Croatia, 2007.

D Cavka, D Poljak, A Peratta, ‘Electrostatic field around the human head in front of a video display unit: the field as a function of display size’, 15th International Conference on Software Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Split, Croatia, 2007.

T Curtin, J Baynham, S Mellings, ‘Simulating the mechanics of fretting fatigue crack growth’, NAFEMS 2007 World Congress, Vancouver, Canada, 2007.

S Fattah, F Khoshnaw, R Saeed, ‘An investigation about preventing cavitation damage and fatigue failure in Derbendikhan power station’, Fluid Structure Interaction and Moving Boundary Problem, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

A Galybin, ‘Introduction on STEM for stress analysis in statically determined bodies’, Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods XXIX, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

A Galybin, ‘Inverse problems of plane elasticity for the determination of contract stresses’, Computer Methods and Experimental Measurements VIII, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

A Galybin, ‘Introduction of the stress trajectories element method for stress analysis in tectonic plates’, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol 9, 2007.

A Galybin, S Mukhamediev, ‘Reconstruction of stress fields in adjacent regions separated by seismically-active faults’, Seismicity and Seismological Observations of the Baltic Sea Region and Adjacent Territories, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2007.

C Gonzalez, A Peratta, D Poljak, ‘Human body exposure to fixed potentials surfaces in power substations’, Modelling in Medicine and Biology VII, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.


PUBLISHING

C Gonzalez, A Peratta, D Poljak, ‘Induced currents in the human body resulting from the proximity to surfaces at fixed potentials’, 15th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Split, Croatia, 2007.

R Gospavic, V Popov, ‘Numerical Modelling of surface treatment by laser beam’, Computer Methods and Experimental Measurements for Surface Effects and Contact Mechanics VIII, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

R Gospavic, V Popov, G Todorovic, ‘DRM-MD approach for bound electron states in semiconductor nano-wires’, Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods XXIX, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

T Grytsenko, A Peratta, ‘Implementation and performance assessment of a parallel solver for sparse linear systems of equations and rules for optimal solution’, Data Mining VIII, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

T Grytsenko, A Peratta, ‘Performance assessment of parallel techniques’, Data Mining VIII, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

M Jamil, V Popov, S Ahmed, Z A Khan, ‘Management of electricity generation using the Taguchi approach’, Energy and Sustainability, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

S Mellings, P Chauhan, R Adey, ‘Modelling crack growth in stiffened aircraft structures’, ICAF, Naples, Italy, 2007.

S Mukhamediev, A Galybin, ‘Analysis of stresses initiated recent near-Sumatra earthquakes’, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol 9, 2007.

A Peratta, ‘Dual reciprocity boundary element method for iron corrosion in acidic solution’, Simulation of Electrochemical Processes II, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

A Peratta, ‘Electromagnetic modelling of human eye exposed to conductive keratoplasty’, Modelling in Medicine and Biology VII, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

A Peratta, ‘Numerical modelling of gas-solid interface for homogeneous propellant combustion’, Fluid Structure Interaction and Moving Boundary Problems IV, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

A Peratta, C Brebbia, ‘Sub-modelling boundary element approach for stress concentration in samples exposed to pitting corrosion’, Simulation of Electrochemical Processes II, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

A Peratta, V Popov, ‘Hybrid BEM for the early stage of a 3D unsteady heat diffusion process’, Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods XXIX, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

V Popov, T Anovski, R Gospavic, ‘Sustainable management of Prespa Lake’ Engineering Nature, 2007.

A Pun, T Curtin, K Barlow, ‘Fretting fatigue modelling and life prediction in an advanced simulation fretwork’, Propulsion-Safety and Affordable Readiness Conference, San Diego, CA, 2007.

R Saeed, M Faqe, F M Khoshnaw, ‘Applying the path analysis method to determine the significance of input parameters on the output of Derbendikham power station’, Energy and Sustainability, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.

V Tomenko, V Popov, ‘Distributed knowledge-based medical system for data assimilation and analysis’, Data Mining VIII, WIT Press Southampton and Boston, 2007.


DIRECTOR OF WIT

Carlos Brebbia

Wessex Institute is the brainchild of Professor Carlos Brebbia, who decided to create the Institute

after a long and distinguished academic career. Carlos was born in Argentina where he completed his first engineering degree. He spent two stimulating years after graduation as part of a small team setting up an Institute of Applied Mechanics. Following this he registered at Southampton University in England for a higher degree, arranging to carry out his research partly at MIT.

This experience, which he found most rewarding, set up the basis for his long and close association with the USA.

After obtaining his PhD at Southampton he worked for the Central Electricity Research Laboratories in the UK, a leading research establishment at the time. He left the Laboratories to take an academic position at Southampton University where he rose from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer and Reader. During his time at Southampton he took leave to become Visiting Professor at many other Universities, including an academic year at Princeton University. After having been appointed Full Professor of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, he decided to resign his position and return to the UK to set up the Wessex Institute.

Carlos is renown throughout the world as the originator of the Boundary Element Method, a technique that generates important research work at

Wessex Institute. He has written many scientific papers, is editor of many volumes and is the author or co-author of thirteen books.

His current interests are in the field of strategic planning and research management and looking after all the activities at Ashurst Lodge to ensure that Wessex Institute continues to grow and develop in the right direction. He is founder and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements.

Prof Brebbia has more recently been instrumental in the launching of the new International Journal of Design and Nature. Another important activity is his membership of the International Committee for the award of the highly regarded Prigogine Medal for Ecological Research.

During the last year Carlos has continued to be in charge of the scientific conference programme at WIT and arranged important courses and training seminars in different locations throughout the world. He continues to promote research on Boundary Elements and Meshless Techniques. Carlos is also in charge of the publishing programme of the Institute which includes, in addition to the conference proceedings, a series of monographs and edited books by some of the foremost scientists in the world. He has been the driving force behind the setting up of the Electronic Library of the Institute and in developing the publishing strategy of WIT.

Prof Brebbia has helped the Institute to develop academic links with first class institutions around the world. This work has results in many more research programmes and collaborative projects.

Carlos is in charge of implementing the strategic aims of WIT which include the extension of research activities into ecological, environmental and sustainability issues. This is reflected in the range of new initiatives taken by WIT in the last few years.


Viktor Popov

Prof Popov who completed his PhD at WIT is Head of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Division. He has over 15 years of research experience in environmental modelling, computational fluid dynamics, and environmental research and protection. Prof Popov participated in a number of research and industrial projects during 2007. He is currently involved in three EC FP6 projects, two as a risk assessment task leader, and one NATO SfP project as the NATO Country Project Director.

He is the principal author of one book and several chapters in books, co-editor of several books and author or co-author of many scientific papers. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal on Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements. His main research interests include: Environmental Modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Environmental Risk Assessment, Waste Management, High Performance Computing and Simulations.

SENIOR STAFF

William R Blain

Dr Blain completed his PhD at the University of Southampton and is the Academic Director at Wessex Institute. He is responsible for all registrations, project administration and the personnel involved. He is Chairman of the Research Degrees Committee and acts as Chairman of the examining board for the MPhil and PhD examinations held at the Institute.

Dr Blain coordinates the International Master Programmes in collaboration with other universities as well as looking after all the training activities at the Institute including the programme of short courses and seminars held throughout the year.

As Conference Director, he oversees all the International conferences, sponsored by Wessex Institute, and is responsible for establishing their contractual agreements. During 2007, twenty-three International conferences were held in many countries around the world.


SENIOR STAFF

Robert A Adey

Dr Adey is the Head of the Industrial Research Division. He is also Director of Strategic Developemnt at CM BEASY Ltd and editor of the International Journal Advances in Engineering Software. During the academic year he presented a series of seminars, short courses and lectures at different establishments across Europe and the USA. Dr Adey is involved with a number of industrial projects.

Andres Peratta

Dr Peratta, who completed his PhD at WIT, is Head of the Information and Communication Engineering Department and Lecturer in Electromagnetism and Applied Numerical Methods. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Communications, Software and Systems. His expertise is in Scientific Programming, Computational Electromagnetism, Fluid Dynamics and Corrosion Modelling.

Alexander Galybin

Prof Galybin, who obtained his PhD from Moscow State University, is Head of Damage Mechanics Division at WIT. He has over 20 years of research experience in the areas of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids. Dr Galybin has spent more than 10 years working in different research positions at the University of Western Australia where he had a successful record with the Australian Research Council.

Prof Galybin is currently leading an EPSRC project. He has particular expertise in Boundary Value Problems including Ill-posed and Non-classical Problems of Elasticity; Singular Integral Equations; Fracture Mechanics and Mechanisms of Crack Growth; Contact mechanics; Rock mechanics; Stress Fields in the Earth’s Crust and several other areas of Mechanics of Solids.


ADJUNCT STAFF

John Baynham

Dr Baynham is Director of Engineering Research and Development of CM BEASY (Boundary Elements Analysis System). Over the last academic year, Dr Baynham has supervised research projects within the Industrial Research Division and has presented a number of papers on Boundary Element related technologies to international audiences.

Geoffrey Broadbent

Prof Broadbent has contributed widely to the architectural profession for many years and has written more than 150 papers. He has been author or co-author of eight books on various topics related to architecture and architectural design during his distinguished career. Prof Broadbent has been a member of the academic Board of WIT for a number of years and as such is involved in the strategic running of the Institute.

Alex Cheng

Prof Alex Cheng is a Professor at the University of Mississippi in the Department of Civil Engineering. He is also on the Academic Board at the Wessex Institute of Technology and has been a Fellow of this Institute since 2001. Prof Cheng is a renowned expert on Boundary Element Methods and has written numerous books, well over 100 refereed journal papers and a similar number of papers for international conferences. Prof Cheng is an Adjunct Professor at WIT.

Jerry J Connor

Prof Connor is WIT’s representative in the Boston office and adjunct Professor of Ashurst Lodge. He is Professor of Civil Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is internationally renowned for his work in Software Engineering and Analytical Techniques. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute.


ADJUNCT STAFF

Tom Curtin

Tom Curtin is the Technical Manager of the Boston Office and acts as the Industrial Research Officer of WIT in the USA. He holds a BSc and a Master in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, as well as a second Master from Northeastern University in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Mechanics and Design. Tom Curtin has been actively involved in the implementation of the Boundary Element Method for engineering applications and supports the industries in North America using this technology.

Gilbert De Mey

Prof De Mey is a Professor at the University of Ghent in the Department of Electronics and Information Systems and, in addition, he is head of a team of researchers. The research topics all involve thermal aspects in electronics, including cooling and electro-thermal coupling, and he is also involved in several collaboration programmes with other European countries. He has written over 200 journal and conference papers and has acted as reviewer for many scientific publications. Prof De Mey is Adjunct Professor at WIT.

Patrick de Wilde

Prof De Wilde from the Free University of Brussels is an expert in Structures and Material Sciences. He has been associated with this Institute for many years and is a member of the Academic Board of Directors. He has written over 130 scientific publications in the areas of Computer Aided Engineering, Finite Element Methods, Composite Materials, and Mechanics of Materials and Structures. He has acted as co-chairman of many conferences that WIT has organized. He is an Adjunct Professor at WIT and has also collaborated closely with this Institute.

Kay Hameyer

Prof Hameyer is Professor for Electromagnetic Energy Transformation at the Rheinland Westfalische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany where his research interests include numerical field computation, the design of electrical machines, in particular permanent magnetic excited machines, induction machines and numerical optimisation strategies. He has authored over 230 journal and conference papers and is the author of 4 books. Prof Hameyer is Adjunct Professor at WIT.


ADJUNCT STAFF

Olf Herbarth

Prof Herbarth is Chair for Environmental Hygiene and Epidemiology, Head of the Dept. Environmental Medicine and Environmental Hygiene and Managing Director of the Centre for Environmental Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Leipzig. In addition, he is Head of the Department Human Exposure Research and Epidemiology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig. He authored and co-authored more than 250 papers, 150 of them in

peer reviewed international journals. His field of expertise is in environmental health and epidemiology, human health risk assessment, development of non invasive diagnostic tools for environmental influenced diseases, modelling of epidemic processes and exposure scenarios. Prof. Herbarth is Adjunct Professor at WIT.

Santiago Hernandez

Prof Santiago Hernandez from the University of La Coruna, Spain frequently visits the Wessex Institute of Technology to present courses on Bridge Design and Optimisation Techniques. He is a leading expert in the Structural Engineering field and has acted as co-chairman of many conferences that WIT has organized. He is an Adjunct Professor as well as being a member of the WIT Academic Board. Santiago has numerous scientific publications and has written several books.

Ted Hromadka

Dr Hromadka is a Principal Engineer at Hromadka & Associates, Costa Mesa, California and a Professor at West Point. His expertise includes the development of master plans for surface water hydrology and the development of computer systems. In addition he has developed plans for water quality enhancement, sediment and debris production, and runoff management. Dr Hromadka has written 22 books on various topics related to hydrology. He is an Adjunct Professor at WIT.


ADJUNCT STAFF

Athanassios Kungolos

Dr Athanassios Kungolos is an Associate Professor of Environmental Management and Engineering at the Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly, Greece. He holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Master and a PhD in water quality and ecotoxicology from University of Okayama, Japan. Dr Kungolos has authored or co-authored more than 25 papers in international journals as well as more than 60 papers

in conference proceedings on issues such as environmental toxicology, water quality, wastewater treatment, waste management and environmental management and planning. He is one of the co-editors of the journal International Journal on Sustainable Development and Planning. Dr Kungolos collaborates with WIT in the areas of Environmental Toxicology, Water Quality, Wastewater Treatment, Solid Waste Management and Environmental Management and Planning.

Andrea Mammoli

Andrea Mammoli is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of New Mexico and an Adjunct Professor at WIT. He completed a PhD degree at the University of Western Australia and another at the University of Ancona in Italy. Andrea is internationally renowned for his work on Boundary Elements, Mesh Reduction Techniques and Advanced Computational Techniques in Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics

and Material Characterisation. He has collaborated with WIT in organising many international conferences.


ADJUNCT STAFF

Konrad Morgan

Prof Morgan is Dean, School of Applied Media and Information Technology, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. His specialist areas are in Educational Technology, Information Systems Analysis and Design, Software Engineering, Human Computer Interaction and Project Management. He has been a Senior Author on more than 70 peer reviewed papers in international journals and conferences in the areas of Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors and Psychology. Prof Morgan is an Adjunct Professor at WIT.

Dragan Poljak

Prof Poljak from the University of Split, Croatia is a frequent visitor to the Wessex Institute of Technology and is an international expert on electromagnetic radiation. He is an Adjunct Professor at WIT where he lectures on Electromagnetics and carries out research into this field. Prof Poljak has been awarded the National Prize for Sciences by the Croatian Committee of Science and Technology, sponsored by the National Parliament.

Eckart Schnack

Prof Schnack is Professor of Solid Mechanics at the University of Karlsruhe. He is an expert in numerical methods of continuum mechanics and on experimental methods of mechanics. He has over 200 publications to his name and has obtained many prestigious awards throughout his career. He has been appointed as Adjunct Professor at WIT due to his high level of collaboration with this Institute.

Charles Shoniregun

Dr Shoniregun from the School of Computing and Technology at the University of East London is an expert on Information Management and Business Information Systems. He has collaborated with the Information and Communications Engineering Division at the Wessex Institute of Technology in a number of areas, presents short courses in his area of expertise and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at WIT.


Dmitry Sitnikov

Dr Sitnikov from State Academy of Culture at Kharkov in the Ukraine where he is Head of Department for Information Systems and is an international expert on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at WIT where he lectures on Information Systems, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

Antonio Tadeu

Prof Antonio Tadeu from the University of Coimbra is a member of the Board of Directors of WIT and has collaborated with the Institute in many conferences and publications. He is an expert in computational modelling and has applied techniques for the solution of structural, acoustic, fluid dynamics and many other problems.

Alessandro Zanasi

Dr Zanasi is co-founder of TEMIS and is a leading authority in the area of Text Mining, Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence and has over 20 years experience in the IT industry. He has worked for various international organisations throughout the world and is author of several publications in the area of IT. Dr Zanasi is an Adjunct Associate Professor at WIT where he regularly collaborates with this Institute in the area of Information Systems, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

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ACCOMMODATION

The Ashurst Lodge campus provides a variety of first class accommodation consisting of five individual two to four-bedroom cottages, and two new large houses having four or

five bedrooms each. The accommodation can be used for families or shared by researchers. The houses are totally self-contained. All the accommodation is located on campus and has associated amenities and car parking spaces. An independent building contains the conference and social function facilities. The high standard of accommodation and conference facilities is of great benefit to all visitors and residents.


ACCOMMODATION


RESEARCH DEGREES

Iuliia Moroz

Iuliia Moroz graduated from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (KNURE), Ukraine and has successfully passed her MPhil viva at WIT with a thesis on “A Method for Controlling Interaction of Processes in Distributed Information Systems”. The external examiner was Dr Chris Johnson from University of Plymouth, UK. The thesis searches and resolves deadlocks in complex information systems. As a result of the investigations a method for deadlock searching, resolving and verifying the solution correctness is proposed.

Mario Birkic

Mario Birkic graduated from the University of Split Croatia and successfully passed his MPhil viva at WIT with his thesis entitled ‘Electromagnetic Modelling of a Lightning Rod’. The external examiner was Prof Francesco Lattarulo from Politecnico di Bari, Italy. The objective of the research was to study the behaviour of a lightning rod model as a vertically posed monopole antenna representing effective protection for sensitive air traffic control ground-based systems.

Andrey Koryak

Andrey Koryak graduated from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (KNURE), Ukraine and has successfully passed his MPhil viva at WIT with a thesis on “Discovering patterns of Web site user behaviour for promotion purposes with the help of Kohonen neural networks and classification methods”. The external examiner was Dr Andy Phippen from the University of Plymouth, UK. The aim of this thesis was in the field of Data Mining applied to web-site promotion. The main goals were to analyse web traffic by means of data mining methods, to improve web promotion strategies and to conduct Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), making a web-resource more popular and profitable.


Tanja Nekrasov

Tanja Nekrasov graduated from the University of Split, Croatia and has successfully passed her MPhil viva at WIT with a thesis on ‘Measurement of Base Station Antennas Radiation’. The external examiner was Prof Michele Bozzetti from Politecnico di Bari, Italy. Tanja’s research investigated the influence of electromagnetic radiation to humans produced by base station antennas.

Josko Samardzic

Josko Samardzic graduated from the University of Split, Croatia and successfully passed his MPhil viva at WIT with a thesis entitled ‘Optimization Procedure for the Location of Radiation Sources’. The external examiner was Dr Stuart Porter from the University of York, UK. The main purpose of this thesis was to develop a tool for planning the location of the radio base stations, by taking into account both the safety aspects and the mobile communication system requirements. This was accomplished by using analytical formulas for predicting RF fields in conjunction with graph theory and linear optimisation.

RESEARCH DEGREES

Damir Cavka

Damir Cavka graduated from the University of Split, Croatia and has successful passed his MPhil viva at WIT with a thesis on ‘Human Exposure to Electrostatic Field Generated by Video Display Units’. The external examiner was Dr Steve Pennock from the University of Bath, UK. The objective of this work was to investigate the interaction between the electrostatic field of Video Display Units and the human head in front of it, with special attention being given to the surface of the face.


Prof Ilya Prigogine was born in Moscow in 1917 and obtained both his undergraduate and graduate education in Chemistry at the Free University of Brussels. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures. The main theme of his scientific work was the role of time in the physical sciences and biology. He contributed significantly to the understanding of irreversible processes, particularly in systems far from equilibrium. The results of his work had profound consequences for understanding biological and ecological systems. Prof Prigogine died in 2003. The

PRIGOGINE AWARDS 2007

Seabra Santos, the Rector of the University of Coimbra to Professor Robert Ulanowicz, from the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland.

Prof Ulanowicz’s made outstanding contributions to Network Analysis, Information Theory in Ecology, Thermodynamics in Ecology and Causality in Evolving System. He has written over 150 scientific papers

in international journals and several books, as well as being on the editorial board of more than half a dozen international journals.

Prof Joao Carlos Marques, the Vice Rector and Co-chairman of the ECOSUD 2007 described the career of his friend and

colleague:

“I was asked to present Robert Ulanowicz, who will receive the Prigogine Award in 2007. I accepted this mission with true pleasure since

a) I admire Bob Ulanowicz’s work, which had a real impact in Science;

Prof Ilya Prigogine

Prigogine Medal to honour his memory is awarded annually to a leading scientist in the field of ecological systems.

The 2007 Prigogine Award ceremony was held at the Sixth International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development (ECOSUD 2007) in Coimbra, Portugal and the medal was awarded by Prof Fernando


“Bob is indeed a marvellous man and a distinct scientist.

“Professor at the University of Maryland, at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Bob is a Chemical Engineer that walked through Ecosystems Theory exhibiting his superior skills in the domain of Complex Ecology. His professional contributions were outstanding with regard to Network analysis, Information Theory in Ecology, Thermodynamics in Ecology, and Causality in Evolving Systems.

“Robert Ulanowicz’s impact in Science is remarkable. It is not just a matter of scientific productivity, illustrated by more than 150 scientific papers in international journals and several books, as well as by its role as member of the editorial board of more than half a dozen international journals. In my modest opinion, his impact is most significant in changing younger people’s way of thinking Ecology by introducing systems perspective.

If you move around the world, you will currently find many more young scientists that look upon ecological problems from a new perspective, the systems perspective, and Robert Ulanowicz, through theoretical advances and tools development, is a key part of this process.”

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b) I consider myself his friend since almost ten years.

“I have known Bob in first place as just a name. In fact, the ink of my PhD thesis was still fresh, some eighteen years ago, and at that time Robert Ulanowicz was a ringing name for all those interested in Ecosystem Theory.

“I only had the opportunity of knowing him years later, when he kindly accepted to receive at Maryland one of my undergraduate students, who spent some months working with him at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. Later on, Bob also accepted to co-supervise her PhD thesis, he visited us in Coimbra, and since then our encounters and scientific collaboration became regular.

“During pleasant talks, many scientific questions that were less clear to me suddenly turned obvious. I regret not having the opportunity of flying with Bob. Indeed, Bob also flies in the strict sense. Among his many skills, he used to ensure with his small airplane many aerial connections to and from the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.


The Wessex Institute continues to award the Eminent Scientist Medal, established in 1985, which is awarded annually to scientists who have contributed to the development of different scientific

disciplines and who have been instrumental in creating new centres or schools of research. The 2007 medals were awarded to:

Jan Kretzschmar

Prof Jan Kretzschmar of VITO Research Centre in Belgium was awarded the Eminent Scientist Medal at the Air Pollution 2007 conference, which was held in the Algarve, Portugal. Jan graduated as an electronic engineer at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium where he also completed a degree in nuclear engineering. His PhD thesis, also at Leuven, was entitled “Microwave heating and drying”. After these studies, he received a NASA Fellowship to undertake post-doctoral studies at the University of California in Berkeley. He started his air pollution research at the Belgium Nuclear Energy Research Centre in 1972, after which he established the Energy Division at VITO, the Flemish Institute of Technological Research, where he is now Research Director responsible for energy, environmental and materials technology. Jan has a long and distinguished research career with more than 150 papers and numerous communications at meetings, courses and conferences. He is now Adjunct Professor at the University of Antwerp where he teaches Air Pollution and Renewable Energy Technologies.

Michele Maugeri

Professor Michele Maugeri was awarded the Eminent Scientist Medal at the 6th International Conference on Earthquake Resistant Engineering

Structures (ERES) which took place in Bologna in 2007. Michele graduated in Civil Engineering at the Politecnico of Torino and carried out work as a Visiting Researcher at Imperial College for two years. He is currently Full Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Catania, where he is Director of the Department of Civil and Geotechnical Engineering; Director of the PhD Course on Geotechnical Engineering and member of the Italian National Committee of the Ministry of Public Works. He is a member of many international and national committees. Michele has been Chairman or member of the Scientific Committee of many conferences, including some of those organised by WIT. He is author of more than 300 papers, many in the field of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.

He has published a book with WIT Press entitled “Seismic Protection of Damage: a case study in a Mediterranean Country” (WIT Press, Southampton and Boston, 2005).

Andrea Mammoli

Prof Andrea Mammoli was awarded the Eminent Scientist Award in recognition of his outstanding achievement in the field of engineering sciences. Andrea is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he has been teaching courses in the area of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, computational mechanics and energy since 1998. He is currently heading the refurbishment and modernization of the solar-thermal-assisted HVAC system in the Mechanical Engineering building, a unique resource for showcasing energy conservation and harvesting of renewables. He is also principal investigator in the New Mexico GridWise demonstration project, a US Department of Energy initiative aimed at developing a robust adaptive energy grid which is distributed and suitable for the integration of renewable energy into the mainstream. Prof

EMINENT SCIENTIST AWARDS


Mammoli holds a BEng and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Australia and is a Fellow of the Wessex Institute, where he also holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship.

Luigia Binda

Prof Luigia Binda was awarded the Eminent Scientist Medal at the 10th International Conference on Structural Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture which took place in Prague. Prof Binda was

HROMADKA PRIZE

Two Hromadka prizes were awarded during the Water Resources and River Basin Management conferences which were held in Kos in 2007. The prizes were instituted by Professor Ted Hromadka,

a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute, who has been associated with WIT since its beginning and has contributed in many ways to its development.

The first Hromadka Medal was given to Professor Jorge de las Heras from the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain for his paper entitled “Spatial and temporal distribution of Nitrate contents in the Mancha Oriental Hydro-geological System, SE Spain:1998-2003”.

The other Hromadka Medal was awarded to Dr Hamed Assaf from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon for his presentation “Assessing Ground Water Quality conditions in the upper Litani River basin utilising geostatistical analysis tools”.

trained as an Architect at the Polytechnic of Milano where she is now Full Professor of Repairs and Strengthening of Historical Buildings. She is Honorary Member of RILEM, an organisation in which she serves as Chairman of its Committee on Strategies and Assessment of Measurements. She is a Fellow of the American Measurement Society which has recently awarded her the distinguished Scalzi award. She also received the Timbervest Award from the British Measurement Society. Professor Binda is the author of more than 400 papers and has several chapters in state of the art books.

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The rank of Fellow is awarded in recognition of personal achievements within the field of Computational Engineering and Sciences as well as for collaboration in the Research and Training programme at

Ashurst Lodge.

There are a series of privileges for Fellows, such as preferential treatment at events organised by WIT, such as short courses held at the Lodge

FELLOWS OF WESSEX INSTITUTE

Fifteenth International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution (AIR POLLUTION), Algarve, Portugal.

Third International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning (SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING), Algarve, Portugal.

Tenth International Conference on Optimum Design in Engineering (OPTI), Myrtle Beach, USA.

First International Conference on the Simulation of Electrochemical Processes (ELECTROCOR), Myrtle Beach, USA.

Fourth International Conference on Fluid Structure Interaction (FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION) incorporating the Free and Moving Boundary Problems Seminar, The New Forest, UK.

Eighth International Conference on Computer Methods and Experimental Measurements for Surface and Contact Mechanics (CONTACT/SURFACE), The New Forest, UK.

CONFERENCES ORGANISED BY WIT

Fourth International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management (WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT), Kos, Greece.

Fourth International Conference on River Basin Management including all aspects of Hydrology, Ecology, Environmental Management, Flood Plains and Wetlands (RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT), Kos, Greece.

throughout the year, publications of WIT Press as well as access to residential and research facilities at the Lodge. In general, Fellows have priority in their dealings with the Wessex Institute of Technology.

A series of new Fellows were appointed during 2007.


Sixth International Conference on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures (ERES), Bologna, Italy.

Fourth International Conference on Computational & Experimental Methods in Multiphase & Complex Flow (MULTIPHASE FLOW), Bologna, Italy.

29th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, incorporating a Seminar on Computational and Experimental Methods in Electrical Engineering and Electromagnetics (BEM/MRM), The New Forest, UK.

Third International Conference on Computational Ballistics (COMPUTATIONAL BALLISTICS), The New Forest, UK.

CONFERENCES ORGANISED BY WIT

Third International Conference on Computational Methods and Experiments in Material Characterisation (MATERIALS CHARACTERISATION), Bologna, Italy.

Eighth International Conference on Data, Text and Web Mining and their Business Applications including Information Engineering Managements (DATA MINING & INFORMATION ENGINEERING), The New Forest, UK.

First International Conference on Energy and Sustainability (ENERGY), The New Forest, UK.

Second International Conference on Safety and Security Engineering (SAFE), Malta.

Fourth International Conference on the Impact on Environmental Factors on Health (ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH), Malta.

Thirteenth International Conference on Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements (CMEM), Prague, Czech Republic.

Tenth International Conference on Studies, Repairs and maintenance of Heritage Architecture, incorporating the Maritime Heritage Seminar (STREMAH), Prague, Czech Republic.

First International Conference on The Art of Resisting Extreme Natural Forces (ENGINEERING NATURE), The New Forest, UK.

Thirteenth International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century (URBAN TRANSPORT), Coimbra, Portugal.

Sixth International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development (ECOSUD), Coimbra, Portugal.

Seventh International Conference on Modelling in Medicine and Biology (BIOMED), The New Forest, UK.


The Interface between ‘nano and bio’ by Prof Ian Bruce, University of Kent.

Trends in the Engineering of Tall Buildings by Prof Jerry Connor, MIT, USA.

Collocation (Meshless) Method for Well and Ill-Posed Problems in Partial Differential Equations by Prof Alex Cheng, University of Mississippi, USA.

Studies on the Strength of Porous Ceramics – Mechanical Testing and Numerical Modelling by Prof Ioannis Doltsinis, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

In addition to many other courses, the following courses on Advanced Topics were organised by the Institute in 2007:

Reliability and Risk Analysis for Engineers by Prof Milan Holicky, KI CTU, Prague

Fracture and Failure Modelling by Dr Sharon Mellings, BEASY.

Dynamics of Floating Structures by Dr Subrata K Chakrabarti, Offshore Structure Analysis Inc, USA

Corrosion Modelling and Design Verification by Dr Sharon Mellings, BEASY.

Integrated Water Resources Management by Prof Maria C Cunha, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

ADVANCED COURSES AT WIT

Facture and Failure Modelling Simulation by Dr Sharon Mellings, BEASY.

Design and Nature by Prof Roland Liebe, Consulting Engineer and University of Stuttgart.

Theory and Practice of Riser and Mooring Dynamics by Dr Subrata K Chakrabarti, Offshore Structure Analysis Inc, USA

Corrosion Simulation by Dr Sharon Mellings, BEASY.

Introductory Course on Impact and Blast Resistant Design Methods by Prof Norman Jones and Dr Graham Schleyer, University of Liverpool, UK

Advanced Course on Impact and Blast Resistant Design Methods by Prof Norman Jones and Dr Graham Schleyer, University of Liverpool, UK

WESSEX INSTITUTE ADVANCED SCIENCE SEMINAR PROGRAMME


NEW LINK AGREEMENTS

The Wessex Institute of Technology has established formal link agreements in 2007

with the following organisations:

University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

University of Granada, Spain

Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, Ukraine

University of Wolverhampton, UK

WESSEX INSTITUTE ADVANCED SCIENCE SEMINAR PROGRAMME

Post-Occupancy Environmental Evaluation of a Small Building by Dr Fionn Stevenson, University of Dundee, UK.

Climate Change and its Implications for the New Forest by Stephen Trotter, Director of Conservation and Enhancement of the New Forest National Park Authority, UK.

Frequency Domain Analysis of Wire Antennas by Prof Dragan Poljak University of Split, Croatia.

The Ginzburg-Landau Equation for SiC/SiC-Composites by Prof Eckart Schnack, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Simulation of Microbial Transport in Aquifer Remediation by Prof George Pinder, University of Vermon, USA.

Design Optimization of Large Engineering Structures by Prof Santiago Hernandez, University of La Coruña, Spain.

Design for Sustainability using Life Cycle Analysis by Prof Jerry Connor, MIT, USA.

Increased Market Participation in a Rural Water Market – Some Australian Experiences by Prof Henning Bjornlund, University of Lethbridge, Canada.

Trends in Environmental Health Research by Prof Olf Herbarth, University of Leipzig, Germany.


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