Workshop on Computational Tools for Modeling Acoustic Propagation in Real-World Materials
(CTAP 2004)

August 9^th and 10^th, 2004

This inaugural 2-day workshop is sponsored by the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) with financial and organizational support provided by the Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science (CTCMS) and the Materials Reliability Division (MRD), respectively. The workshop is designed to bring together researchers working in the various fields of acoustics to develop computational tools for modeling acoustic propagation in real-world materials. The workshop will be held August 9-10, 2004 in Boulder, Colorado at the NIST Laboratories.

Many real-world materials are both attenuating and dispersive, with the properties underlying this behavior linked by the principle of causality. In the various branches of acoustics, including geophysics, SONAR, medical ultrasound, and nondestructive evaluation, similar models are often used in describing materials as propagation media. Incorporation of dispersion into time-domain models requires retention of the history of the acoustic pressure field. Consequently, time-domain modeling of acoustic propagation in such materials is both computationally and memory intensive. High performance computing can address both of these computational issues.

General topics to be addressed:

• Physical and mathematical aspects of acoustic propagation
• Computational mathematical techniques
• High performance computing methods

If you have questions, you may email Kendall Waters (Workshop Chairman) or Wendy McBride (Boulder Conference Coordinator). A PDF copy of our brochure is available here.

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