Introduction to web computing
The World Wide Web offers many opportunities for computing in science and engineering. Interpreting my charge as department editor quite broadly, I'd like to review some of these possibilities. If I omit areas of particular interest to you, please let me know.
WebFEM: A Web Application for Distributed Numerical Simulations
In this work we present the research project aimed to designing and implementing WebFEM, a Web application for the efficient simulation of engineering problems whose solution is based on the Finite Element Method (FEM). WebFEM is accessible through the Web, and the final user interfaces are the most common Web browser pages. The architecture of the simulator has been accurately designed in order to allow an easy distribution of the computation over cluster of computers linked on the Web. The programming tools used for the implementation have been chosen in order to get portable and flexible Web software, also suited for educational purposes. The distributed architecture allows using WebFEM in advanced application contexts, like distance learning and simulation activities of distributed working teams.
Rapid Spatially Coupled AVO Inversion
The Bayesian methodology yields a natural framework for many geophysical inverse problem, see e.g. (Tarantola and Valette, 1982; Tarantola, 1987; Duijndam, 1988a; Duijndam, 1988b). The solution of a Bayesian inverse problem is represented by the posterior distribution. From the posterior distribution the best estimate and the corresponding uncertainty can be extracted and a set of plausible solutions can be drawn.