Dr. Richard F. Sincovec, Ph.D.

Emeritus Henson Professor



Publications

Books:

  • Proceedings of the Sixth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing , Volumes I and II, (edited by R. Sincovec, D. Keyes, M. Leuze, L. Petzold, and D. Reed), SIAM, 1993, 1041 pages.
  • A First Course in Computer Science with Modula-2 , (with L. Pinson and R. Wiener), John Wiley and Sons, 1987, 500 pages.
  • Modula-2 Software Components , (with R. Wiener), John Wiley and Sons, 1987, book and software, 350 pages.
  • Data Structures Using Modula-2 , (with R. Wiener), John Wiley and Sons, 1986, 550 pages.
  • Software Engineering with Ada and Modula-2 , (with R. Wiener), John Wiley and Sons, 1984, 450 pages.
  • Programming in Ada , (with R. Wiener), John Wiley and Sons, 1983, 350 pages.

Selected Publications:

  • “The Future of High Performance Computing,” ORNL Review on High Performance Computing, Vol. 30, Numbers 3&4, 1998, pp. 3-7.
  • “Toward a Parallel Recursive Spectral Bisection Mapping Tool,” (with C.A. Leete and B.W. Payton), Proceedings of the Sixth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, SIAM, 1993, pp. 923-928.
  • “The Design and Implementation of Parallel Algorithms in Ada,” Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Ed. Garry Rodrique, SIAM, 1989, pp. 317-321.
  • “A Coherent Set of Ada Exercises,” Proceedings of the Ada Software Engineering and Training Symposium, Denver, Colorado, June 1988.
  • “A Grid Refinement Technique for Hyperbolic Equations,” (with N.K. Madsen), Advances in Computer Methods for Partial Differential Equations-VI, IMACS, 1987, pp. 52-59.
  • “Two Approaches to Implementing Generic Data Structures in Modula-2,” (with R. Wiener), ACM SIGPLAN, 1985.
  • “A Case Study Illustrating Object-Oriented Design in Modula-2,” (with R. Wiener), Journal of Pascal and Ada, Vol. 3, No. 3, May 1984, pp. 41-47.
  • “Modular Software Construction Using Ada,” (with R. Wiener), Journal of Pascal and Ada, Vol. 3, No. 2, March 1984, pp. 29-35.
  • “Object-Oriented Design with Modula-2,” (with R. Wiener), Proceedings of Mini/Micro West, San Francisco, CA, November 8-11, 1983, pp. 6-16.
  • “Algorithm 565: PDETWO/PSETM/GEARB: Solution of Systems of Two Dimensional Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,” (with D.K. Melgaard), ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 7, No. 1, March 1981, pp. 126-135.
  • “The Influence of A-Stability on the Efficiency of Stiff Integrators,” (with J.C. Heydweiller), Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1982, pp. 185-188.
  • “Solvability, Controllability and Observability of Continuous Descriptor Systems,” (with E.L. Yip), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-26, No. 3, June 1981, pp. 702-707.
  • “Analysis of Descriptor Systems Using Numerical Algorithms,” (with A.M. Erisman, E.L. Yip, and M.A. Epton), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-26, No. 1, February 1981, pp. 139-147.
  • “General Software for Two Dimensional Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,” (with D.K Melgaard), ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 7, No. 1, March 1981, pp. 106-125.
  • “The Development of Mathematical Software for Partial Differential Equations,” Advances in Computer Methods for Partial Differential Equations - III, IMACS, 1979, p. 434.
  • “PDECOL: General Collocation Software for Partial Differential Equations,” (with N.K. Madsen), ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 5, 1979, pp. 326-351.
  • “Dynamic Simulation of Chemical Processes Described by Distributed and Lumped Parameter Models,” (with J.C. Heydweiller and L.T. Fan), Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 1, 1977, pp. 125-131.
  • “Generalized Collocation Methods for Time Dependent Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems,” Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal, Vol. 17, October 1977, pp. 345-352. Also appeared in 1976 SPE Numerical Simulation Proceedings.
  • “On the Relative Efficiency of Higher Order Collocation Methods for Solving Two-Point Boundary Value Problems,” SIAM Journal Numerical Analysis, Vol. 14, March 1977, pp. 112-123.
  • “A Stable Difference Scheme for the Solution of Hyperbolic Equations Using the Method of Lines,” (with J.D. Heydweiller), Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 22, December 1976, pp. 377-388.
  • “General Software for Partial Differential Equations,” (with N.K. Madsen), Numerical Methods for Differential Systems, L. Lapidus and W. E. Schiesser, Eds., Academic Press, New York, 1976, pp. 229-242.
  • “PDEPACK, A New Tool for Simulation,” (with N.K. Madsen), Proceedings of the 1975 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, San Francisco, CA, July 1975, pp. 144-149.
  • “PDEONE, Solutions of Systems of Partial Differential Equations,” (with N.K. Madsen), ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 1, 1975, pp. 261-263.
  • “Software for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,” (with N.K. Madsen), ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 1, 1975, pp. 232-260.
  • “Numerical Reservoir Simulation Using an Ordinary Differential Equations Integrator, Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal, Vol. 15, June 1975, pp. 255-264. Also appeared in 1975 Transactions volume.
  • “The Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,” (with N.K. Madsen), Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics, Texas Institute for Computational Mechanics, 1974, pp. 371-380.
  • “Spline Function Collocation Methods for Linear Two-Point Boundary Value Problems,” (with E.T.Y. Lee), Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics Academia Sinica, Vol. 1, June 1973, pp. 41-55.
  • “On the Solution of the Equations Arising from Collocation with Cubic B-Splines,” Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 20, October 1972, pp. 893-895.

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