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Title:
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Finite Element Methods in Environmental Fluid Mechanics 

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Organizers:
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Kazuo Kashiyama
Department of Civil Engineering
Chuo University
1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
Tel:+81-3-3817-1808
Fax:+81-3-3817-1803
Email:kaz@civil.chuo-u.ac.jp

Joannes J. Westerink
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences
Concurrent, Department of Mathematics
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame IN 46556-0767
Phone  574-631-6475
Fax    574-631-9236
Email: jjw@photius.ce.nd.edu 

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Minisymposium description:
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Many problems in geophysical and environmental fluid mechanics
have energetic flow scale lengths that are highly nonhomogeneous and are
thus ideally suited for unstructured grid solutions. Finite element
methods for problems in environmental fluid mechanics have matured
considerably in recent years. This mini-symposium will examine the latest
developments in solving uncoupled and coupled flow and transport problems
with environmental applications.

Topics of interest include:
 * Flow and transport processes in estuarine and coastal systems
 * 2D and 3D ocean processes in natural waterbodies
 * Wind environmental flow problems
 * Coupling of short and long wave processes
 * DG solutions to shallow water equations
 * Methodology of numerical simulation for environmental flow problems
 * High performance computing
 * Error analysis, verification and validation
 * Unstructured grid generation criteria
 * p and h refinement