Conference Topics

Abstracts can be submitted to any of the Conference Topics, organized in 8 groups. Accepted Minisymposia are clearly indicated by "MS" and linked to their respective MS proposal.

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Every topic has its corresponding number (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc) in order to facilitate correct selection of topics when submitting an abstract in the personal area of each author. Instructions for submission of abstracts are available here.

1 - Computational Solid Mechanics 1.3 MS: Advances in Numerical Methods for Multibody Systems Minisymposia organized by: Alberto Cardona, Olivier Brüls, Martín Pucheta 1.4 Advances in smart materials, systems and analyses for civil infrastructure 1.5 Atomistic computational methods 1.6 MS: Bridging Size Scales in Hierarchical Materials: Multiscale Modeling and Experiments Minisymposia organized by: Horacio Espinosa, Glaucio Paulino, Pablo Zavattieri 1.7 Composite materials, structures and applications 1.8 MS: Computational Buckling Analysis of Thin-Walled Structures Minisymposia organized by: Luis Godoy, Rossana Jaca 1.9 MS: Computational Contact Mechanics Minisymposia organized by: Peter Wriggers, Christian Weissenfels, Laura de Lorenzis 1.10 Computational contact mechanics and tribology 1.12 Computational fracture and damage mechanics and enhanced continua 1.13 MS: Computational Geomechanics Minisymposia organized by: Dorival M. Pedroso, Jose E. Andrade, Patricia Faria 1.17 Computational methods for seismic analysis and design 1.18 MS: Computational Methods in Seismic Engineering Minisymposia organized by: Miguel E. Tornello, Oscar Möller, Francisco J. Crisafulli 1.20 Experimental mechanics, simulation, validation 1.21 Geometricaly and materially nonlinear problems, computational constitutive modelling 1.22 MS: Homogenization Methods in Solid Mechanics Minisymposia organized by: Martin Idiart, Oscar Lopez-Pamies 1.23 MS: Large Deformation Problems. Fundamentals and applications Minisymposia organized by: Carlos García Garino, Jean-Philippe Ponthot, Anibal E. Mirasso, Romain Boman 1.24 Linear and nonlinear dynamics, testing, impact and crashworthiness 1.25 MS: Material Modeling with Multiscaling Minisymposia organized by: Kenjiro Terada, Eduardo A. De Souza Neto, Pablo J. Blanco, Peter Wriggers 1.28 MS: Multiscale Computational Design of Engineering Materials Minisymposia organized by: Alfredo E. Huespe, Pablo J. Sánchez, Guillermo Etse, Javier Oliver 1.29 MS: Nonlocal Models for Mechanics and Diffusion Minisymposia organized by: Pablo Seleson, Diego del-Castillo-Negrete, Michael L. Parks 1.30 MS: Numerical Modeling of Damage Evolution and Propagating Discontinuities in Solids at Failure Minisymposia organized by: Christian Linder, Ekkehard Ramm 1.32 MS: Structural Analysis and Vibrations Minisymposia organized by: Diana V. Bambill, Liz G. Nallim 1.33 MS: Structural Integrity – Fracture Mechanics Minisymposia organized by: Hiroshi Kawai, Hiroshi Okada 1.34 MS: Structures under Extreme Loads Minisymposia organized by: Daniel Ambrosini, Bibiana M. Luccioni

2 - Computational Fluid Dynamics 2.1 Aerodynamics 2.2 Boundary layers and transition 2.5 MS: Computational Fluid Dynamics and Finite Element Methods: Formulations, Implementation Strategies and Applications Minisymposia organized by: Lucia Catabriga, Sandra Malta 2.6 MS: Computational Methods for Multiphysics and Multiscale Problems 2.7 MS: Computational Methods for Two-Phase Flows Minisymposia organized by: Norberto Mangiavacchi, Gustavo Anjos, José Pontes 2.8 MS: Computational Methods in Environmental Fluid Mechanics Minisymposia organized by: Angel N. Menéndez, Renato Nascimento Elias, Kazuo Kashiyama 2.10 MS: Computational River, Coastal and Delta Hydrodynamics and Morphodynamics Minisymposia organized by: Marcelo H. Garcia, Fabian A. Bombardelli 2.12 MS: Coupled Problems and Free Surface Flows Minisymposia organized by: Facundo Del Pin, Rodrigo R. Paz 2.13 MS: Coupled Problems: Fluid-Structure Intraction and Reduced Order Models Minisymposia organized by: Hermann G. Matthies, Trond Kvamsdal, Carlos Felippa, K.C. Park, Roger Ohayon 2.15 MS: DNS/LES of Turbulent Wall-Bounded Flows Minisymposia organized by: Xiaohua Wu and Guillermo Araya 2.17 Flows with heat transfer 2.18 Fluid-structure interaction 2.19 MS: Free-Surface, Moving-Boundary and Multi-Phase Flows Minisymposia organized by: Marcela Cruchaga, Mario Storti, Gustavo Buscaglia, Axel Larreteguy 2.20 High-speed and chemically reacting flows 2.21 Hybrid RANS/LES methods 2.22 Large-Eddy simulation (LES) 2.25 Non-Newtonian and complex fluids RANS models for turbulent flow simulation 2.27 MS: Numerical modelling of flooding areas and erodible bathymetry Minisymposia organized by: Pablo Ortiz, Joanna Szmelter 2.29 Reactive and combustion flows

3 - Computational Mathematics and Numerical Methods 3.1 MS: A Priori and A Posteriori Error Analysis in Finite Element Methods Minisymposia organized by: Ricardo Duran 3.2 MS: Advanced Numerical Strategies for the Design of Materials, Structures and Processes Minisymposia organized by: Francisco Chinesta, Elias Cueto, Antonio Huerta 3.3 MS: Algorithmic Aspects of High-Performance Computing for Mechanics and Physics Minisymposia organized by: Santiago Badia, Victor M. Calo, Javier Principe 3.5 MS: Boundary Element Techniques Minisymposia organized by: E. Mesquita Neto, L. Távara Mendoza, Adrián Pablo Cisilino 3.7 MS: Computational Methods for Kinetic Collisional Transport Minisymposia organized by: Irene M. Gamba, Thierry Magin 3.8 Data analysis techniques 3.10 Dynamical systems 3.11 Evolutionary algorithms 3.12 MS: Finite Element Methods for Multiscale Problems Minisymposia organized by: Frederic Valentin, Alexandre Madureira 3.14 MS: Free Boundary Problems: Theory, Numerical Analysis and Applications Minisymposia organized by: Domingo Tarzia 3.16 GRID generation 3.17 MS: High Performance Computing and Related Topics Minisymposia organized by: Ryuji Shioya, Daisuke Tagami 3.19 MS: Higher Order Finite Element Discretizations Minisymposia organized by: Leszek Demkowicz, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Tan Bui-Tanh 3.20 MS: HPC Techniques in Computational Mechanics Minisymposia organized by: Mariano Vázquez, Alvaro Coutinho, Mario Storti 3.21 MS: Hybrid Analytical-Numerical Methods in Structural and Fluid Dynamics, and Heat and Mass Transfer Minisymposia organized by: Renato M. Cotta, Carlos Frederico T. Matt, Leandro A. Sphaier 3.24 Large scale linear algebra, multi-scale and domain decomposition methods and parallel computing 3.25 MS: Mathematical and Computational Methods for Subsurface Modeling and Visualization Minisymposia organized by: Victor M. Calo, Ignacio Muga, David Pardo 3.26 MS: Mathematics and Algorithms for Advanced Numerical Simulations Minisymposia organized by: Rodolfo Araya, Carlos Conca, Pascal Frey, Olivier Pironneau 3.27 MS: Meshfree Methods and Advanced Finite Element Methods Minisymposia organized by: G.R. Liu 3.28 MS: Meshfree Methods: New Developments and Applications Minisymposia organized by: Franco Perazzo, Luis Pérez-Pozo 3.29 Meshless, extended or enriched finite elements, level-sts 3.30 MS: Model Order Reduction of Large-Scale Mechanical Systems Minisymposia organized by: David Amsallem, Charbel Farhat 3.33 MS: Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations in Continuum Mechanics and Electromagnetism Minisymposia organized by: R. Rodríguez 3.34 Numerical linear algebra 3.35 Parallel computing 3.36 MS: Particle Mechanics and Methods in Engineering Science Minisymposia organized by: Eduardo M. B. Campello, Tarek I. Zohdi 3.37 MS: Recent Advances in Meshfree and Particle Methods Minisymposia organized by: Seiichi Koshizuka, Kazuo Nishimoto, Liang Yee Cheng 3.41 Soft computing methods, artificial intelligence, expert systems 3.43 MS: Advanced Hybridized software for solving challenging multi-disciplinary design applications Minisymposia organized by: Tadeusz Burczynski, Jacques Periaux

4 - Computational Methods in Life Sciences 4.1 MS: Advances in Computational Biomechanics Minisymposia organized by: Daniel E. Hurtado, Reuben Kraft 4.3 MS: Computational Mechanics in Biology and Medicine Minisymposia organized by: Sandra Rugonyi, Suvranu De 4.8 MS: Numerical and Computational Methods in Analysis and Design of Biomedical Devices Minisymposia organized by: J. Di Paolo, M. E. Berli, M. Cerrolaza

5 - Optimization and Control 5.5 Evolutionary methods 5.6 MS: Inverse Problems and their Applications Minisymposia organized by: Ruben D. Spies 5.7 Multidisciplinary optimization and robust design 5.11 Optimal design 5.12 MS: Optimization and Computational Mechanics Minisymposia organized by: Alfredo Canelas, José Herskovits, Sandro Mazorche and Mario Tanaka Filho 5.13 MS: Robust, Performance-based and Reliability-based Optimization under Uncertainty Minisymposia organized by: André T. Beck, Marcos Valdebenito, Rafael H. Lopez 5.14 Sensitivity analysis and optimization 5.16 MS: Uncertainty Modeling and Quantification Minisymposia organized by: Rubens Sampaio, Marta B. Rosales, Marcelo T. Piovan 5.17 MS: Uncertainty Quantification and Inverse Problems Minisymposia organized by: Hermann G. Matthies, Youssef Marzouk, Habib Najm, Alireza Doostan, Sondipon Adhikari

6 - Computational Acoustics 6.2 Computational methods for wave motion, acoustics and non destructive evaluation 6.5 MS: High Order Methods with Applications to Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics Minisymposia organized by: João Luiz F. Azevedo, William R. Wolf 6.10 Smart materials and noise reduction

8 - Industrial Applications 8.1 MS: Advanced Computational Algorithms for modeling Hydraulic Fracturing Operations Minisymposia organized by: Eduardo Dvorkin, Rita Toscano, Adrian Rosolen, Marcela Goldschmit, Jose Hasbani, Silvina Dengra, Raul Radovitzky 8.2 MS: Aerospace Technology Minisymposia organized by: Sergio A. Elaskar, Eduardo N. Zapico 8.3 Biomedical engineering 8.5 MS: CFD in Engineering and Technology of Nuclear Installations Minisymposia organized by: Juan Carlos Ferreri, A. I. Lazarte 8.7 MS: Computational Metallurgy Minisymposia organized by: Diego J. Celentano, Marcela Cruchaga, Víctor Fachinotti, Patricia M. Dardati 8.9 Energy technology 8.10 MS: Industrial Applications of Computational Mechanics Minisymposia organized by: Marcela Goldschmit, Jose Risso 8.11 Material processing 8.14 Modelling and simulation of processes and manufacturing