Recent Papers


Interactive Simulation and Visualization of Massless, Massed, and Evaporating Particles, D. Diachin, D. Heath, L. Freitag, J. Herzog, and W. Michels, submitted to IIE Transcations.
Tetrahedral Mesh Improvement using Face Swapping and Smoothing, Lori A. Freitag and Carl Ollivier-Gooch, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Volume 40, J. Wiley and Sons, 1997. Get the Postscript Version.
A Computational Study of the Effect of Unstructured Mesh Quality on Solution Efficiency, Michael Batdorf, Lori A. Freitag and Carl Ollivier-Gooch, AIAA 97-1888, 13th Annual AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, (1997). Get the Postscript Version.
On Combining Laplacian and Optimization-based Mesh Smoothing Techniques, Lori A. Freitag, Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation, ASME Applied Mechanics Division, Volume AMD-Vol 220, (1997) pages 37-44. Get the Postscript Version.
A Comparison of Tetrahedral Mesh Improvement Techniques, Lori A. Freitag and Carl Ollivier-Gooch, Proceedings of the Fifth International Meshing Roundtable, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October, 1996, pp. 87-100. Get the Postscript Version.
A Parallel Algorithm for Mesh Smoothing, Lori A. Freitag, Mark T. Jones, and Paul E. Plassmann, ANL/MCS-P668-0697. Submitted to SIAM J. on Scientific Computing, Get the Postscript Version.
Unstructured Mesh Computations on Networks of Workstations, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, ANL/MCS-P670-0697. Get the Postscript Version.
The Scalability of Mesh Improvement Algorithms, Lori A. Freitag, Mark T. Jones, and Paul E. Plassmann, Submitted to IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, ANL/MCS-P676-0797. Get the Postscript Version.
A Parallel Algorithm for Mesh Smoothing, Lori A. Freitag, Mark T. Jones, and Paul E. Plassmann, to appear in the Proceedings of the SIAM conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing 1997. Get the Postscript Version.
Adaptive Refinement of Unstructured Finite-Element Meshes, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, J. of Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 25, (1997) pp. 41-60. (Also MSC Preprint P562-0296.) Get the Postscript Version.
Parallel Algorithms for Adaptive Mesh Refinement, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, SIAM J. on Scientific Computing, 18,(1997) pp. 686-708. (Also MSC Preprint P421-0394.) Get the Postscript Version.
BlockSolve95 users manual: Scalable library software for the parallel solution of sparse linear systems, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, Argonne National Laboratory Report ANL-95/48. Get the Postscript Version.
Parallel Heuristics for Improved, Balanced Graph Colorings, Robert K. Gjertsen, Jr. Mark T. Jones, and Paul E. Plassmann, to appear in J. of Parallel and Distributed Computing, (Also MCS Preprint P513-0595). Get the Postscript Version.
Remote Engineering Tools for the Design of Pollution Control Systems for Commercial Boilers, D. Diachin, L. Freitag, D. Heath, J. Herzog, W. Michels, and P. Plassmann, to appear in The International Journal of Supercomputer Applications and High Performance Computing, Get the Postscript Version.
Computational Results for Parallel Unstructured Mesh Computations, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, Computing Systems in Engineering, 5 (1994), pp. 297-309. (Awarded the 1994 Atanasoff Best Paper Award by Old Dominion University and NASA Langley Research Center. Also MSC Preprint P466-0594.) Get the Postscript Version.
Software for the Generalized Eigenproblem on Distributed Memory Architectures, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, in Proceedings of the Cornelius Lanczos International Centenary Conference, Eds. M. Chu, R. Plemmons, D. Brown, and D. Ellison, SIAM Publications, 1994, pp. 322-325. (Also MSC Preprint P464-0894.) Get the Postscript Version.
Parallel Algorithms for Unstructured Mesh Computation, Lori A. Freitag, Mark T. Jones, and Paul E. Plassmann, in Proceedings of the Fifth SIAM Applied Linear Algebra Conference, Snowbird, Utah, pp. 123-127. SIAM, 1994. Get the Postscript Version .
New Advances in the Modeling of High-Temperature Superconductors, Lori A. Freitag and Mark T. Jones, and Paul E. Plassmann, in 1994 International Simulation Conference, ``Grand Challenges in Computer Simulation,'' pp. 208-213, La Jolla, California, April 11-15, 1994. (Also MSC Preprint P415-0294.) Get the Postscript Version.
Parallel Algorithms for the Adaptive Refinement and Partitioning of Unstructured Meshes, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, Proceedings of the Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1994, pp. 478-485. (Also MSC Preprint P445-0594.) Get the Postscript Version.
New Techniques for Parallel Simulation of High-Temperature Superconductors, Lori A. Freitag, Mark T. Jones, and Paul E. Plassmann, in Proceedings of the Scalable High-Performance Computing Conference, pp. 726-733, Los Alamitos, CA, 1994. IEEE. (Also MSC Preprint P444-0594.) Get the Postscript Version.
Computation of Equilibrium Vortex Structures for Type-II Superconductors, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, The International Journal of Supercomputer Applications, 7:2 (1993), pp. 129-143. (Also MSC Preprint P380-0893.) Get the Postscript Version (Includes color figures).
A Parallel Graph Coloring Heuristic, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, SIAM J. on Scientific Computing, 14 (1993), pp. 654-669. (Also MSC Preprint P246-0691.) Get the Postscript Version.
The Efficient Parallel Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Linear Systems, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, in Graph Theory and Sparse Matrix Computation, A. George, J. Gilbert, and J. W. H. Liu, eds., Vol. 56 of IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications, Springer-Verlag, 1993, pp. 229-245. (Also MSC Preprint P314-0692.) Get the Postscript Version.
Scalable Iterative Solution of Sparse Linear Systems, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, Parallel Computing, 20 (1994), pp. 753-773. (Also MSC Preprint P277-1191.) Get the Postscript Version.
An Improved Incomplete Cholesky Factorization, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, ACM Trans. on Mathematical Software 21 (1995), pp. 5-17. (Also MSC Preprint P206-0191.) Get the Postscript Version.
Algorithm 740: Fortran Subroutines to Compute Improved Incomplete Cholesky Factorizations, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, ACM Trans. on Mathematical Software 21 (1995), pp. 18-19.
Critical Fields of Josephson-coupled Superconducting Multilayers, J. Garner, M. Spanbauer, R. Benedek, K. Strandburg, S. Wright, and P. Plassmann, Physical Review B, 45 (1992), pp. 7973-7983. (Also MSC Preprint P281-1291.)
Solution of Large, Sparse Systems of Linear Equations in Massively Parallel Applications, Mark T. Jones and Paul E. Plassmann, Proceedings of Supercomputing '92, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1992, pp. 551-560. (Also MSC Preprint P313- .) Get the Postscript Version.
A Parallel Nonlinear least-Squares Solver: Theoretical Analysis and Numerical Results, Thomas F. Coleman and Paul E. Plassmann, SIAM J. on Scientific and Statistical Computing, 13 (1992), pp. 771-793.
Sparse Jacobian Estimation and Factorization on a Multiprocessor, in Large-Scale Numerical Optimization, Paul E. Plassmann, T. Coleman and Y. Li, eds., Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1990, pp. 152-179. (Also MSC Preprint P243- .) Get the Postscript Version.

plassman@mcs.anl.gov, Last Updated August 1997