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Computational Mechanics in Geoscience Applications 
In honor of Prof. J. Tinsley Oden's 70th birthday

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Organizers:
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Clint Dawson
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
The University of Texas at Austin
Temple Foundation Faculty Fellow #7
Email Address: clint@ices.utexas.edu

Mary F. Wheeler
Director, Center for Subsurface Modeling
Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics
The University of Texas at Austin
SHC 318 / UT Mail Code C0200
Austin, Texas 78712
Email: mfw@ticam.utexas.edu

Ivan Yotov 
Department of Mathematics
301 Thackeray Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: (412) 624-8338
Fax: (412) 624-8397
E-Mail: yotov@math.pitt.edu 

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Minisymposium description:
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In this session we will focus on computational methods for geoscience applications, including 
surface and ground water flows, contaminant transport, multiphase flow and poroelasticity.  
Geoscience applications are inherently multiphysics and multiscale.  Novel finite element and 
finite volume methods which accurately model coupled physics, and can resolve or approximate 
fine scale features are of interest in these problems.  Conservation of mass and/or chemical 
species is important in these applications, therefore methods which preserve this property locally 
and globally are a must.  Furthermore, uncertainties in coefficients, boundary and initial data, 
and other parameters, propagate through to uncertainties in solutions.  New methods for 
incorporating and quantifying uncertainty are being developed and tested for geoscience problems.  
These and other aspects of geoscience modeling will be addressed by the speakers in this session.