Finite Element Flux-Corrected Transport (FEM-FCT) for the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations

A high resolution finite element method for the solution of problems involving high speed compressible flows is presented. The method uses the concepts of flux-corrected transport and is presented in a form which is suitable for implementation on completely unstructured triangular or tetrahedral meshes. Transient and steady state examples are solved to illustrate the performance of the algorithm

Disturbances Outside the Public Library: Need for Collaborative Community Intervention

Trudy Fletcher goes to her town’s public library during the noon hour and is faced with a visibly angry group of teenagers crowding around the entryway.  She enters the library and learns that the library staff members are sheltering a student from a rival school who is being threatened by local students with assault over a previous violent incident.  Joyce Miller, principal of the local high school, who has been experiencing difficulty with on-campus student behaviour, is faced with having to determine the best course of action in dealing with the situation.  This case raises questions about the extent to which various community stakeholders, including school personnel, have authority and responsibility to respond to and prevent these types of incidents, as well as the additional workload and stress placed on an administrator for an event occurring off school property.  The suggested teaching activities allow graduate classes to examine and discuss this case thoroughly, including attention to adolescent decision-making, legal and policy factors, proactive and preventive intervention options for schools and communities, and work intensification of principals

Application of integrated fluid-thermal-structural analysis methods

Hypersonic vehicles operate in a hostile aerothermal environment which has a significant impact on their aerothermostructural performance. Significant coupling occurs between the aerodynamic flow field, structural heat transfer, and structural response creating a multidisciplinary interaction. Interfacing state-of-the-art disciplinary analysis methods is not efficient, hence interdisciplinary analysis methods integrated into a single aerothermostructural analyzer are needed. The NASA Langley Research Center is developing such methods in an analyzer called LIFTS (Langley Integrated Fluid-Thermal-Structural) analyzer. The evolution and status of LIFTS is reviewed and illustrated through applications

Do People Exploit their Bargaining Power? : an Experimental Study

Do people “play fair,†or do they exploit their bargaining power? This paper suggests that such questions may not be well posed. It studies two bargaining situations that are very similar from the point of view of current fairness/focal theories of behavior, but differ in their strategic aspects. Different behavior in the two cases and a tendency by subjects after the experiment to describe as “fair†what actually occurred are reported.Center for Research on Economic and Social Theory, Department of Economics, University of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100629/1/ECON106.pd

Embedding masculinities within a gender conscious relational pedagogy to transform education with boys experiencing compounded educational disadvantage

Responding to a persistent gap in policy and practice, this paper offers a new gender conscious relational pedagogy, directly informed by boys and educators who have participated in Ulster University’s longitudinal ‘Taking Boys Seriously’ research in Northern Ireland. The development of this pedagogy is grounded in the authentic voices of boys from disadvantaged communities whom despite encountering multiple models of masculinity within a contested society, are rarely provided with opportunities to explore and better understand these in relation to themselves and others. Transcending the boundaries of formal and informal education, we have found this gender conscious relational pedagogy to be highly significant in re-engaging boys in education, increasing their participation, confidence, emotional support, behavioural management, critical thinking, and reflexivity. Our work contributes to a gender-transformative research agenda (Keddie and Bartel 2021) committed to an emancipatory praxis that engages intentionally with boys and educators to examine gender socialisation processes with a focus on masculinities, re-shaping power relations within contextual educational communities, and improving educational experiences, opportunities, and outcomes for disenfranchised adolescent boys and ultimately all learners