Dr. I. Michael Navon

Professor of Mathematics,
School of Computational Science and
Department of Mathematics,
Florida State University

Program Director,
Optimization and Optimal Control
















Publications

I.M. Navon, "Finite-element Solution of the Shallow-Water Equations on a Limited- Area Domain with Three Different Mass-Matrix Formulations", 77-86 (1979) Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Silver Spring, MD, American Meteorological Society

I.M. Navon and H.A. Riphagen, "The Impact of GARP Global Data Sets DST-5 and DST-6 on Predictability Degradation in the Southern Hemisphere", in: Numerical Experimentation Programme, 1, eds. Jan Rutherford, 2.1-2.5

I.M. Navon, "A High Accuracy Combined Finite-Element and Compact Fourth Order, Two-Stage Galerkin Method", Computational Mechanics Centre Publication, 1-20 (1981)

I.M. Navon, "A Numerov-Galerkin Technique Applied to a Shallow-Water Equation Model with Exact Conservation of Integral Invariants", in: Finite-Element Flow Analysis, eds. Tadahiko Kawai, (North Holland, 1982) 57-67 (1096 pages)

I.M. Navon, "Applications of Augmented-Lagrangian Methods in Meteorology-Comparative Study of Different Conjugate-Gradient Routines for a Large-Scale Problem", NASA-Research Review 1983 - Global Modeling and Simulation Branch, TM 86053, 150-156 (1983)

I.M. Navon, S. Bloom, and L. Takacs, "Computational Aspects of the Non-linear Normal Model Initialization of the GLAS 4th Order GCM", NASA-Research Review 1983 -TM 86053, 106-113 (1983)

L. Takacs, I.M. Navon, E. Kalnay, "High Latitude Filtering in a Global Grid-point Model Using Model Normal Modes", NASA Research Review 1984 - Global Modeling and Simulation Branch, 84-86 (1985)

F.H.M. Semazzi and I.M. Navon, "A Comparison of the Bounded Derivative and Normal Mode Initialization Methods Using Real Data", NASA Research Review 1984 Global Modeling and Simulation Branch, TM 86229, 84-86 (1985)

E. Kalnay, I.M. Navon, and L. Takacs, "High Latitude Filtering in a Global-grid Point Model Using Model Normal Modes", (1985) Proceedings of the 7th AMS Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Montreal, June 17-26, 1985

M. Navon, S. Bloom, and L. Takacs, "Computational modes and the Machenhauer NLNMI of the GLAS 4-th Order Model", 115-120 (1985) Proceedings of the 7-th AMS Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Montreal, pp115-120, June 17-26, 1985

F.H.M. Semazzi and I.M. Navon, "A Comparison of the Bounded Derivative and Normal Mode Initialization Methods Using Real Data", 108-114 (1985) Proceedings of the 7-th AMS Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Montreal, 108-114, June 17-20, 1985

I.M. Navon, "A Review of Variational and Optimization Methods in Meteorology", (1985) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Variational Methods in Geosciences, (Y.K. Sasaki, editor), Held at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 1-5, October 15-17, 1985

M.K. Ramamurthy and I.M. Navon, "Application of a Conjugate-Gradient Method to Variational Blending Of Meteorological Fields", reviewed Proceedings of the Eight Conference On Numerical Weather Prediction, February 22-26, 1988, Baltimore, Maryland, 202-208 (860 pages), American Meteorological Society

I.M. Navon, P.K.H. Phua and M. Ramamurthy, "Vectorization of Conjugate- Gradient Methods for Large-Scale Minimization", in: Proceeding Supercomputing '88, (IEEE Computer Society and ACM SIGARCH, Washington, DC, (1988), 410-419 (458 pages)

I.M. Navon and B. Neta, "Application of Optimal Control Methods in Meteorology- 4-D Data Assimilation Problems", in: ICIAM-87: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, eds. James McKenna and Roger Temam, (SIAM, Philadelphia, 1988), 282-284 (376 pages)

I.M. Navon, "A Survey of the Status of Efficient Minimization Algorithms for Variational Data assimilation", in: International Symposium on Assimilation of Observations in Meteorology and Oceanography, eds. O.Talagrand and F.X. LeDimet, (World Meteorological Organization, 1990), 42-45

I.M.Navon, X. Zou, K. Johnson, J.Derber and J.Sela, "Variational Real Data Assimilation with the N.M.C. Spectral Model" Part 1 : Adiabatic Model Tests", in: International Symposium on Assimilation of Observations in Meteorology and Oceanography, O.Talagrand and F.X. LeDimet (Editors), (World Meteorological Organization, 1990) 341-349

M.K. Ramamurthy and I.M.Navon, "Application of a Conjugate-Gradient Method to variational Assimilation of Meteorological Fields", in: International Symposium on Assimilation of Observations in Meteorology and Oceanography, eds. O.Talagrand and F.X. LeDimet, (World Meteorological Organization, 1990), 359-365

I.M. Navon and X. Zou, "Application of the Adjoint Model in Meteorology", Proceedings of the International Conference on Automatic Differentiation of Algorithms: Theory, Implementation and Application, SIAM Publications, A. Griewank and G. Corliss (Eds), SIAM, Philadelphia, PA 1991

J.Derber, D. Parrish, J. Sela, I.M.Navon and X. Zou, "Variational Data Assimilation Experiments at NMC", 1990 BMRC Workshop in Australia 14 1991

I.M.Navon and X. Zou, "Optimal Control Methods and Efficient Minimization Algorithms for Variational Data Assimilation in Meteorology", 1990 Singapore Supercomputing Conference '90, 11-12 December 1990. Supercomputing for Strategic advantage, K.H. Phua and K.F. Loe Editors, World Scientific, Singapore, 272-331 (1991)

I.M. Navon and Y.Cai, "Domain Decomposition of a Finite-Element Model of the Shallow-Water Equations", Proceedings of the 11-th International Symposium on Finite-Element Methods in South-Africa 15 - 17 January 1992, Cape-Town, Edited by FRD/UCT Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics, 627, 1-39 (1992)

Y. Cai and I.M. Navon, "Parallel Domain Decomposed Preconditioners for the Finite Element Shallow-Water Flow Modeling", Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods for Scientific and Engineering Computing. D.E. Keyes and J.Xu editors. Series on Contemporary Mathematics. Volume 180 American Mathematical Society, 471-476 (1994)

T.C. Oppe, W.H. Holter, and I.M.Navon, "Parallelizable Preconditioned Conjugate- Gradient Methods for the CRAY-YMP and the TMV CM-2" Proceedings of the Second International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis. D. Bainov and V. Covachev (Eds). VSP International Science Publishers, Zeist, The Netherlands. 155-164, (1994) 198pages

I.M.Navon, "Variational Data Assimilation, Optimal Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis for Environmental Problems", Computational Mechanics '95, Vol 1, Atluri, Yagawa and Cruse Eds., Springer Verlag, 740-746 (1995)

Weiyu Yang, I.M.Navon and Philippe Courtier, "A New Hessian Preconditioning Method Applied to Variational Data Assimilation Experiments using NASA SLSI Global S-W Model and GEOS-1 GCM", Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Volume III, Mohamed Hafez et al. (Eds), September 4-8, 1995, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 1429-1435 (1995)

I.M.Navon, "Practical and Theoretical Aspects of Adjoint Parameter Estimation in Meteorology and Oceanography", Computational Mechanics Third Asian-Pacific Conference. Sept 1996, Seoul, Korea, Choi, Yun and Lee Eds., Techno-Press, 1777-1785 (1996)


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