Congress Minisymposia

Below is a list of the USNCCM12 minisymposia.  Abstract submission is now open.

1.  Honoring Prominent Researchers/Special Minisymposia

    1.1  Isogeometric Methods: A Symposium Celebrating the 70th Birthday of Prof. T.J.R. Hughes, Reali Alessandro, Yuri Bazilevs, David Benson, Trond Kvamsdal, Giancarlo Sangalli, Rene De Borst, Clemens Verhoosel

    1.2  Algorithms for Wave Propagation: A Symposium in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Professor Leszek Demkowicz, Timothy Walsh, David Pardo

    1.3  PSAAP Centers: Predictive Science in Computational Mechanics, Robert Voigt

2.  Biological Systems

     2.1  Biomechanics of Living Matter, Rafael Grytz, Ellen Kuhl

     2.2  Computational Mechanics and Biology of Tissue, Elisa Budyn, Patrick Chabrand, Thierry Hoc, Rob Krams

     2.3  Cartilage Mechanics: Characterization and Computational Modeling, David M. Pierce, David A. Reiter

     2.4  Computational Modeling of Native and Engineered Cardiovascular Tissue,  Ilinca Stanciulescu, Ellen Kuhl, Jane Grande-Allen

     2.5  Computational Biomechanics of Trauma, Siddiq Qidwai, Paul Taylor, Susan Marguiles

     2.6  Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, John C. Brigham, Wilkins Aquino, Michael S. Sacks

     2.7  Direct and Inverse Methods for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Biomechanics, Marek Behr, Wolfgang Wall, Alberto Figueroa

3.  Flow Problems

     3.1  High-Order Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Chunlei Liang, Krzysztof Fidkowski, Per-Olof Persson, Peter Vincent

     3.2  Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media, Kalyana Babu Nakshatrala, Daniel Turner, Mario Martinez, Satish Karra

     3.3  Recent Developments of Computational Fluid Mechanics for Free and Moving Boundaries, James Chen, Haibo Dong

     3.4  Computational Fluid Mechanics for Free and Moving Boundaries, Rehka Rao, Scott Roberts, David Noble, Patrick Anderson, Elie Hachem, Marcela Cruchaga, Jonathan Clausen

     3.5  Advances in Nonlinear Unsteady Aerodynamic Flows, Daniella Raveh, Earl Dowell

     3.6  Higher-Order Computational Methods for Modeling Transport in Porous Media, Rohan Panchadhara, Laurent White

     3.7  Finite Element Methods and High-Performance Computing for Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Ethan Kubatko, Kazuo Kashiyama

4.  Multiscale Problems

     4.1  Continuum, Micro-scale and Nano-scale Material Modeling and Characterization, James Chen, James D. Lee,  Xianqiao Wang

     4.2  Advances in Constitutive Modelling of Metal Forming Processes across Different Lengthscales, Robertt Valente, Ivaylo Vladimirov, Ricardo Alves de Sousa

     4.3  Multiscale Mechanics Modeling of Phase Transitions, Shailendra Joshi, Prashant Purohit, William Klug, Arash Yavari

     4.4  Multiscale Modeling and Simulations of Materials Phenomena, Siddiq Qidwai, Surya Kalidindi, Shailendra Joshi

     4.5  Multiscale Computational Homogenization for Bridging Scales in the Mechanics and Physics of Complex Materials, Julien Yvonnet, Kenjiro Terada, Peter Wriggers, Varvara Kouznetsovav, Maenghyo Cho

     4.6  Multi-scale Methods for Heterogeneous Materials, F. Legoll, R. Cottereau, L. Graham-Brady , M. Ostoja Starzewski

     4.7  Computational Methods for Materials with Intrinsic Microstructure, Dennis Kochmann, Christian Linder

     4.8  Multi-scale and Multi-physics Computations in Fluids and Solids, Yozo Mikata, Glaucio Paulino

     4.9  Concurrent Multi-length Scale Modeling: From Finite Elements to Atoms and Electrons, Qing Peng, Chen Huang, Suvranu De

     4.10 Multi-scale Modeling of Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Nitin Daphalapurkar, John Clayton

     4.11 Multiscale Methods and Nonlocal Theories for Complex Material Behavior, Pablo Seleson,  John Foster, Florin Bobaru

     4.12 Multiscale Thermo-Mechanical Response of Molecular Solids: Theory, Simulation, Modeling, and Experiments, Thomas Sewell, Donald Brenner

     4.13 Recent Developments in Nanoscale Modeling of Materials, Albert To, Shaofan Li, Xiaowei Zeng, Jay Oswald

     4.14 Multiscale Modeling of Materials Behavior in Extreme Environments, Avinash M. Dongare, Mohammed A. Zikry, Donald W. Brenner, Tarek Hatem, K. El-Khodary, Pratheek Shanthraj

5.  Damage, Fracture, and Failure

     5.1  Mathematical and Numerical Modeling of Degradation of Materials and Structures, Kalyana Babu Nakshatrala, Ravindra Duddu, J.N. Reddy, Kaspar Willam

     5.2  Computational Methods for Blast and Impact in Mechanics of Materials, Haim Waisman, Caglar Oskay, Ertugrul Taciroglu, Jeong-Hoon Song

     5.3  Numerical Modeling and Engineering Design for Impact and Blast Problems, Howie Fang, Guilin Wen, David C. Weggel, Qing Li

     5.4  Recent Advances in Computational Fracture Mechanics, Hiroshi Okada, Xiaosheng Gao, Toshio Nagashima

     5.5  New Challenges for the Computational Modeling of Solids at Failure, Ekkehard Ramm, Christian Linder

     5.6  Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Damage Evolution, Strain Localization, and Failure, Hashem M. Mourad, D. J. Luscher, Curt A. Bronkhorst, Somnath Ghosh

     5.9  Pavement Mechanics and Simulation, John Bolander, William Buttlar, Silvia Caro, Eshan Dave, Ernian Pan

     5.10 Cohesive Zone Models - Fundamentals and Multiscale Applications, Glaucio H. Paulino, Kyoungsoo Park

     5.11 Computational Stability Analysis, Herbert Mang, Y.B. Yang

6.  Optimization, Inverse Problems, and Imaging

     6.1  Computational Methods in Image Analysis, João Tavares, Jorge Renato, Yongjie Zhang

     6.2  Multi-objective Evolutionary Computation Applied to Structural Engineering and Architecture, Leonardo Moreno De Luca, Oscar Begambre Carrillo, Jesús Villalba

     6.3  Inverse Problems: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, Assad Oberai, Paul Barbone, Wilkins Aquino, Isaac Harari

     6.4  New Trends in Topology Optimization, Glaucio H. Paulino, Emílio C. N. Silva, Kurt Maute

7.  Enabling Technologies

     7.1  Enabling Technologies and their Application for Advancing Computational Mechanics, Alvaro Coutinho, William Barth, Mark Christon

8.  Nano and Quantum Mechanics

     8.1  Emerging Methods for Large-Scale Quantum-Mechanical Materials Calculations, N. Sukumar, John E. Pask, Phanish Suryanarayana

     8.2  Continuum Theories for Modeling Atomic Scale Physics: Novel Models and Methods, Jonathan A. Zimmerman, Reese E. Jones, Jeremy A. Templeton

     8.3  The Atomistic Basis of Non-Equilibrium Thermal Processes in Materials, Brent Kraczek, Reese Jones, Frederic Legoll, Kranthi Mandadapu

     8.4  Computational Nanotribology and Interfacial Dynamics, Yongsheng Leng, Izabela Szlufarska

9.  Numerical Methods

     9.1  Advances in Finite Element Methods for Tetrahedral Mesh Computations, Guglielmo Scovazzi, Micheal W. Gee

     9.2  Phase-Field Modeling and Simulation in Fluid Mechanics, Solid Mechanics and Life-Sciences, Hector Gomez, Kris van der Zee, Thomas J.R. Hughes, J. Tinsley Oden

     9.3  General Polyhedral Discretizations: Meshing, Formulations, and Applications, Joseph Bishop, Samuel Key

     9.4  Mini-Symposium on the Material Point Method and Other Similar Particle Methods, Chen Zhen

     9.5  Meshfree Particle and Isogeometric Technologies,  J.S. Chen, Kent Danielson, Thomas J.R. Hughes, Wing Kam Liu

     9.6  Advances and Applications of the Generalized/Extended Finite Element Method, Armando Duarte, Angelo Simone, Haim Waisman

     9.7  Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation - MeshTrends IX, Steven Owen, Matthew Staten, Mark Shephard, Franck Ledoux

     9.8  Geometric Methods in Computational Mechanics, John A. Evans, Michael A. Scott, Thomas J.R. Hughes

     9.9  Advances in BEM for Advanced Materials, J.R. Berger, Sonia Mogilevskaya, Wenjing Ye

     9.10  Advances in Numerical Methods for Linear and Non-linear Dynamics, Alexander Idesman, Gregory Hulbert

     9.11  Qualitative and quantitative comparison of numerical methods for solving partial differential equations, Reza Abedi, Scott Miller

10.  Contact and Fluid-Structure Interaction

     10.1 Fluid-Structure Interaction Algorithms & Applications, Jonathan Pitt, Scott Miller

     10.2 Recent Advances on Modeling Methods for Fluid-Structure Interaction Systems, Sheldon Wang, Anita Layton, Hong Luo

     10.3 Computational Modeling of Embedded and Contact Interfaces, Mike Puso, Tod Laursen, Peter Wriggers, Jerome Solberg

     10.4 Methods for Cut and Composite Meshes: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, Andre Massing, Mats G. Larson, Anders Logg

11.  Energy Systems

     11.1 Multiphysics Computations for Nuclear Energy Simulations, Jason Hales, Benjamin Spencer, Nathan Crane

     11.2 Computational Methods for Wind Engineering with Emphasis on Wind Energy, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Yuri Bazilevs

12.  UQ, Error Estimation, and Probabilistic Approaches

     12.1  Randomness, Fractals, and Computational Mechanics, Paul Demmie, Luis Costa, Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

     12.2  UQ Challenge Benchmarks, James Stewart, Roger Ghanem, Christian Soize

     12.3  Methods and Applications for Experimental Design with Uncertainties, Quan Long, Serge Prudhomme, Raul Tempone

     12.4  Goal-oriented Error Estimation and Adaptivity, Serge Prudhomme, K.G. van der Zee

     12.5  Computational Mechanics in the Big Data and Big Compute World, Abani Patra, Omar Ghattas

13.  Materials

     13.1  Predictive Modeling of the Co-Evolution of Microstructure and Properties, Michael Tonks, Bulent Biner, Hussein Zbib

     13.2  Innovative Forming Processes and Advanced Material Behavior, Robertt Valente, Reza Kebriaei, Matteo Strano, Maxim Zapara

     13.3  Mathematical Modeling, Constitutive Theories, and Computations, J. N. Reddy, Karan S. Surana, Albert Romkes

     13.4 Computational Soft Active Materials, Xuanhe Zhao, Harold Park, John Dolbow