From adrian@esci.rice.edu Thu Apr 26 18:19:33 2001
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:40:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: Adrian Lenardic <adrian@esci.rice.edu>
To: tobin@splorg.org
Subject: Re: Lava Lamp Model

Hi Tobin,

   Sorry for the delay. As you may notice by the return email, I have 
moved. I am now at Rice University (in houston texas - never ever thought 
I'd live in texas but ...)

   I do not know of other people doing lava lamp simulations numerically.
The one on the www is by Louis Moresi (who I work with quite a bit). I have 
used the same finite element code (which louis wrote) to do my own 
lava lamp simulations for fun (I do also use it for more "serious" scientific 
research). 

   In terms of the modeling technique the best sourse is louis' web page
   
   http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/research/solidMech/Personnel/LouisMoresi
   
   He has whole seperate pages describing the FE code w/ examples. 
   
   I will also email him mysefl to see if he can chat with you a bit via 
email. If he has the time I will write back to you with his email etc.
For now start with thge web page and if you have any added q's feel free 
to ask me.

                best,
                
                     Adrian