Computational methods and experimental measurements; Proceedings of the International Conference, Washington, DC, June 20-July 2, 1982

The conference covers topics in system identification, water resources, data identification, atmospheric fluid dynamics, material identification, structural dynamics, fluid dynamics, waves and structures, rock and soil dynamics, fluid-structure interactions, geomechanics, free surface flow, sediment transport, fracture mechanics, and heat transfer. Attention is given to modal and damage analysis of elastic structures, groundwater flow, the acquisition and display of data from large sensor arrays, columnar vortices, tornadolike vortices, material models for reinforced concrete slabs, the numerical simulation of laminar vortex flow, the computation of three-dimensional turbulent jets in cross flow, the simulation of structural earthquake response, problems in marine hydrodynamics, and tides in the Bay of Bengal. Also discussed are experimental studies of sediment transport, the use of holographic interferometry in three-dimensional crack analysis, boundary element methods for heat and gas flow in solid waste, pulsatile Couette flow, and groundwater recessions.