This project is an equipment grant under the activity Grants For Scientific Computing Research Equipment For The Mathematical Sciences program. The project involves the purchase of special purpose equipment dedicated to the support of research in the mathematical sciences. In general, this equipment is required jointly by several research projects and would be difficult to justify on one project alone. This research equipment support from the National Science Foundation is coupled with discounts and contributions of equipment from manufacturers and significant cost-sharing from the submitting institution. This project provides a good example of university, industrial, and government cooperation in the support of basic research in the mathematical sciences. The equipment in this project will be used to conduct research in number theory and combinatorics, statistical mechanics, partial differential equations, control and optimization, wave absorption and reflection at coated boundaries, modelling of thunderclouds and lightning, nonlinear wave motion, free-boundary problems, viscous flows, and the collection and processing of experimental data.
