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Publications by Hans De Sterck

Journal Articles

  1. Hans De Sterck, Thomas. A. Manteuffel, Stephen F. McCormick, Killian Miller, John Ruge and Geoffrey Sanders, 'Algebraic multigrid for Markov chains', SIAM J. Sci. Comput., submitted, January 2009. [pdf]

  2. Shawn Andrews, Hans De Sterck, Stephen Inglis, and Roger G. Melko, 'Monte Carlo study of degenerate groundstates and residual entropy in a frustrated honeycomb lattice Ising model', Physical Review E 79, in press, 2009. [arXiv link]

  3. Hans De Sterck, Thomas A. Manteuffel, Stephen F. McCormick, Killian Miller, James Pearson, John Ruge, and Geoffrey Sanders, 'Smoothed aggregation multigrid for Markov chains', SIAM J. Sci. Comput., accepted, 2009. [pdf]

  4. Hans De Sterck, Scott Rostrup and Feng Tian, 'A Fast and Accurate Algorithm for Computing Radial Transonic Flows', J. Computational and Applied Mathematics 223, 916-928, 2009. [pdf]

  5. Hans De Sterck, Thomas A. Manteuffel, Stephen F. McCormick, Quoc Nguyen, and John Ruge, `Multilevel adaptive aggregation for Markov chains, with application to web ranking', SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 30, 2235-2262, 2008. [pdf]

  6. Hans De Sterck, Robert D. Falgout, Josh Nolting, and Ulrike Meier Yang, 'Distance-two interpolation for parallel algebraic multigrid', Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications 15, 115-139, 2008. [pdf]

  7. Hans De Sterck, Thomas A. Manteuffel, Stephen F. McCormick, Josh Nolting, John Ruge, and Lei Tang, `Efficiency-based h- and hp-refinement strategies for finite element methods', Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications 15, 89-114, 2008. [pdf]

  8. Hans De Sterck, 'Critical point analysis of transonic flow profiles with heat conduction', SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst. 6, 645-662, 2007. [pdf]

  9. Hans De Sterck, Ulrike Meier Yang, and Jeffrey J. Heys, `Reducing Complexity in Parallel Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioners', SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications 27, 1019-1039, 2006. [pdf]

  10. H. De Sterck, T. J. Manteuffel, S. F. McCormick, and L. Olson, `Numerical Conservation Properties of H(div)-Conforming Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for the Burgers Equation', SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 26, 1573-1597, 2005. [pdf]

  11. Feng Tian, Owen B. Toon, Alexander A. Pavlov, and H. De Sterck, `A Hydrogen-Rich Early Earth Atmosphere', Science 308, 1014-1017, 2005. [pdf]

  12. Feng Tian, Owen B. Toon, Alexander A. Pavlov, and H. De Sterck, `Transonic Hydrodynamic Escape of Hydrogen from Extrasolar Planetary Atmospheres', Astrophysical Journal 621, 1049-1060, 2005. [pdf]

  13. Rob Knight, Hans De Sterck, Rob Markel, Sandra Smit, Alexander Oshmyansky, and Michael Yarus, `Abundance of correctly folded RNA motifs in sequence space, calculated on computational grids', Nucleic Acids Research 33, 5924-5935, 2005. [html] [pdf]

  14. H. De Sterck, T. J. Manteuffel, S. F. McCormick, and L. Olson, `Least--Squares Finite Element Methods and Algebraic Multigrid Solvers for Linear Hyperbolic PDEs', SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 26, 31-54, 2004. [pdf]

  15. C. Michler, H. De Sterck, and H. Deconinck, `An Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Formulation for Residual Distribution Schemes on Moving Grids', Computers and Fluids 32(1), 59, 2003. [pdf]

  16. H. De Sterck, A. Csik, D. Vanden Abeele, S. Poedts, and H. Deconinck, `Stationary two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flows with shocks: characteristic analysis and grid convergence study', J. Comput. Phys. 166, 28, 2001. [pdf]

  17. H. De Sterck, `Hyperbolic theory of the shallow water magnetohydrodynamics equations', Phys. Plasmas 8, 3293, 2001. [pdf]

  18. H. De Sterck and S. Poedts, `Disintegration and reformation of intermediate shock segments in three-dimensional MHD bow shock flows', J. Geophys. Res. 106, 30,023, 2001. [pdf]

  19. J. De Keyser, H. De Sterck, M. Roth, and S. Poedts , `Magnetically dominated solar wind in the inner heliosphere', Space Sci. Rev. 97, 201, 2001.

  20. H. De Sterck and S. Poedts, `Intermediate shocks in three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic bow shock flows with multiple interacting shock fronts', Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (24), 5524, 2000. [pdf]

  21. H. De Sterck and S. Poedts, `Stationary slow shocks in the magnetosheath for solar wind conditions with beta<2/gamma: Three-dimensional MHD simulations', J. Geophys. Res. 104 (A10), 22,401, 1999. [pdf]

  22. H. De Sterck, B. C. Low, and S. Poedts, `Characteristic analysis of a complex two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic bow shock flow with steady compound shocks', Phys. Plasmas 6 (3), 954-969, 1999. [pdf]

  23. H. De Sterck and S. Poedts, `Field-aligned magnetohydrodynamic bow shock flows in the switch-on regime. Parameter study of the flow around a cylinder and results for the axi-symmetrical flow over a sphere', Astron. Astrophys. 343, 641-649, 1999. [pdf]

  24. H. De Sterck, B. C. Low, and S. Poedts, `Complex magnetohydrodynamic bow shock topology in field-aligned low-beta flow around a perfectly conducting cylinder', Phys. Plasmas} 5 (11), 4015-4027, 1998. [pdf]
    Recipient of the 1999 UCAR Outstanding Publication Award

  25. H. De Sterck, S. Poedts, and J.P. Goedbloed, `Dynamics of hot filaments in a tokamak plasma', J. Plasma Physics 59/2, 277-302, 1998. [pdf]

Book Chapters

  1. Hans De Sterck, Rob Markel, and Rob Knight, `TaskSpaces: A Software Framework for Parallel Bioinformatics on Computational Grids', Chapter in textbook `Parallel Computing for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology', A. Zomaya, editor, John Wiley and Sons, 651-669, 2006. [pdf]

Selected Refereed Proceedings Articles

  1. H. De Sterck, R.S. Markel, and R. Knight, `A lightweight, scalable grid computing framework for parallel bioinformatics applications', 19th International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, IEEE, 251-257, 2005. [pdf]

  2. H. De Sterck, R.S. Markel, T. Pohl, and U. Ruede, `A lightweight Java Taskspaces framework for scientific computing on computational grids', Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Track on Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networking, 1024-1030, 2003. [pdf]

  3. G. Bartholomeeusen, H. De Sterck, and G. C.~Sills, `Nonconvex flux functions and compound shock waves in sediment beds', proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems, 347--356, 2003. [pdf]

  4. H. De Sterck, `Multi-Dimensional Upwind Constrained Transport on Unstructured Grids for `Shallow Water' Magnetohydrodynamics', AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Paper 2001-2623. [pdf]

  5. A. Csik, H. De Sterck, B. van der Holst, H. Deconinck, and S. Poedts, `Parallel Residual Distribution Solver for the Ideal 3D MHD Equations: Applications to Flows in Space Physics', AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Paper 2001-2622.

  6. H. De Sterck and S. Poedts, `Overcompressive shocks and compound shocks in 2D and 3D magnetohydrodynamic flows', invited paper in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications, Int. Series of Numerical Mathematics 141, 791, 2001. [pdf]

  7. H. De Sterck, H. Deconinck, S. Poedts, and D. Roose, `A bow shock flow containing (almost) all types of (`exotic') MHD discontinuities', Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications, Int. Series of Numerical Mathematics 129, 195, 1999. [pdf]

Other publications

 

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