UPDATE: The technical program is currently being finalized. Several minisymposia have been merged, which has also resulted in a re-numbering of some of the minisymposia. Below is the REVISED list of USNCCM-11 Minisymposia. The old minisymposia numbers are listed in the far right column for your reference.
NEW MS# Session Numbers |
NEW Title of Minisymposia | Organizers | OLD MS # |
MINISYMPOSIA HONORING A PROMINENT RESEARCHER | |||
1.1 S1-S4 |
Minisymposium on Computational Radiative and Convective Heat Transfer in Honor of Professor George Raithby | Wojciech Lipinski, Kyle Daun, Anthony Straatman |
1.1 |
1.2 S1-S3 |
Minisymposium Honoring the Contributions of Gordon Johnson to Computational Mechanics for Defense Applications | Kent T. Danielson, Jonathan Arata, David L. Littlefield, Bob Ferencz |
1.2 |
1.3 S1-S4 |
Homogenization and topology optimization for CAE: A symposium in honor of Prof. Noboru Kikuchi's 60th birthday | Kenjiro Terada, Shinji Nishiwaki, Somnath Ghosh |
1.3 |
DEVELOPMENT OF NUMERICAL METHODS I (General Developments) | |||
2.1 S1-S3 |
Computational Methods in Image Analysis | Joao Manuel R.S. Tavares, Renato Natal Jorge, Yongjie Zhang, Dinggang Shen |
2.1 |
2.2 S1-S2 |
Numerical Treatment of Singularities of PDEs | Hengguang Li, Susanne Brenner, Victor Nistor | 2.2 |
2.3 S4-S7 |
Isogeometric Methods |
Alessandro Reali, Lourenco Beirao da Veiga, David J. Benson, Thomas J.R. Hughes, Trond Kvamsdal | 2.3 |
2.4 S3-S6 |
Mini-Symposium on the Material Point Method, Node-Based Elements and Other Similar Methods |
Jesse Thomas, Nathan Crane, Samuel Key, Zhen Chen |
2.4 & 2.6 |
2.5 S1-S7 |
Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation - MeshTrends VIII | Steven J. Owen, Matthew L. Staten, Mark S. Shephard | 2.5 |
2.6 S4-S7, S9 |
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods | Adrian Lew, Bernardo Cockburn |
2.7 |
2.7 S7, S9 |
Geometric and Exterior Calculus Methods in Computational Mechanics | Robert Haber, Douglas Arnold | 2.8 |
2.8 S1-S4 |
Continuum Modeling and Computational Approaches for Hard and Soft Matter (or Tissues) |
Albert Romkes, Karan S. Surana, J. N. Reddy, Vinu Unnikrishnan, Ginu Unnikrshnan, Chwee Teck Lim |
2.9 & 3.2 |
2.9 S1-S3 |
Advances in Boundary Element Methods | Sylvain Fata, Ernie Pan, Martin Schanz, Naoshi Nishimura, Wenjing Ye, Ahn-Vu Phan |
2.10 |
3 | DEVELOPMENT OF NUMERICAL METHODS II (Solids and Fluids) | ||
3.1 S5-S7 |
Recent Advances in Nonlocal Computational Mechanics | David Littlewood, Jay Foulk, Alejandro Mota, Michael L. Parks | 3.3 |
3.2 S1-S6 |
Recent Advances in the Quasicontinuum Method and other Atomistic/Continuum Coupling Techniques, and Studies of Microstructural Defects in Materials |
Jaime Marian, Chuin-Shan (David) Chen, Ellad Tadmor, Ronald Miller, Kaushik Dayal, Yash Kulkarni, Vikram Gavini |
3.4 & 9.2 |
3.3 S1-S7, S9 |
Meshfree and Generalized/Extended Finite Element Methods | J. S. Chen, Ivo Babuska, Uday Banerjee, Ted Belytschko, Armando Duarte, Hsin-Yun Hu, John Osborn, Angelo Simone | 3.5 |
4 | ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUES, MODELLING ERRORS | ||
4.1 S4 |
Accomplishments and Challenges in Verification & Validation | Len Schwer, Bill Oberkampf | 4.1 |
4.2 S5-S6 |
Higher Order FE Adaptive Methods | Leszek Demkowicz | 4.2 |
4.3 S1-S3 |
Error Estimation and Adaptivity | Serge Prudhomme, J. Tinsley Oden, Kris van der Zee | 4.3 |
4.4 S7 |
Evaluation and Control of Computational Errors in Solid and Structural Mechanics | Aram Soroushian, Peter Wriggers, M.P. Tootkaboni |
4.5 |
5 | MULTISCALE APPLICATIONS | ||
5.1 S1-S4 |
Modeling and simulation of complex multiscale flows with particular emphasis on turbulent and reactive flows | Victor M. Calo, Volker Gravemeier, Javier Principe, Tom Hughes, Arif Masud | 5.1 |
5.2 S1-S5 |
Recent developments in computational failure analysis: from single scale to multi scale failure analysis | Ted Belytschko, Jeong-Hoon Song, Haim Waisman, Robert Gracie, Jorg F. Unger | 5.3 |
5.3 S4-S7, S9 |
Mathematical modeling and analysis for multiscale materials | Pablo Seleson, Mitchell Luskin, Michael L. Parks, Serge Prudhomme | 5.5 |
5.4 S5-S7, S9 |
Efficient and reliable multiscale modeling techniques for practical applications | Suvranu De, Kenjio Terada, Maenghyo Cho, Ekkehard Ramm, Jacob Fish |
5.6 & 5.2 |
5.5 S6 |
Multi-scale computational modeling of material phonon behavior | Michael J. Leamy, Mahmoud Hussein, Massimo Ruzzene | 5.7 & 7.10 |
6 | COUPLED PROBLEMS (MULTIPHYSICS) | ||
6.1 S6-S7 |
Large Scale Coupled Problems and Related Topics | Hiroshi Kanayama, Ryuji Shioya, Shinobu Yoshimura | 6.1 |
6.2 S1-S6 |
Multi-scale and Multi-physics Computations in Fluids and Solids | Yozo Mikata, Jacob Fish, Caglar Oskay, Karel Matous |
6.1 & 6.3 |
6.3 S7,S9 |
Computational Methods for Multiscale and Multiphysics Wave Phenomena | Stefano Gonella, Massimo Ruzzene | 6.4 |
7 | MATERIALS | ||
7.1 S5-S6 |
Recent Advances in Graphene Modeling and Simulations | Traian Dumitrica, Cristian V. Ciobanu, Sukky Jun | 7.1 |
7.2 S1-S4 |
Multiscale Damage and Failure Mechanics of Engineering Materials | J. Woody Ju, Lizhi Sun, George Z. Voyiadjis | 7.2 |
7.3 S1-S4 |
Recent Developments In Nanoscale Modeling of Materials | Albert C. To, Sukky Jun, Shaofan Li | 7.3 |
7.4 S7 |
Emerging Behavior in Material Systems | Eduard Karpov, Brian J. Henz, Takumi Hawa |
7.4 & 5.4 |
7.5 S1-S2 |
Molecular Modeling of Advanced Materials | Gregory M. Odegard, Pavan K. Valavala, Matt Lewis, Karel Matous, Eric Harstad |
7.5 & 7.6 |
7.6 S1-S6 |
Mechanics of Materials from Nano to Macro Scale | James D. Lee, Ken Chong |
7.7 |
7.7 S5-S7,S9 |
Computational science for soft matter in extreme environments: from molecules to finite elements | Jan Andzelm, Reuben Kraft, Peter Chung | 7.8 |
7.8 S4 |
Multiscale constitutive modeling of materials | Arash Yavari, Tamer El-Sayed, Julian Rimoli, Amir Siddiq | 7.9 |
7.9 S5-S6 |
Computational Mechanics of Semi-Flexible Biopolymer Networks | Hamed Hatami-Marbini, Catalin Picu, Mohammad Mofrad | 7.11 |
7.10 S4-S7, S9 |
Advances in Multiscale Methods for Complex Material Interface and Surface | Dong Qian, Harold S. Park, Wing Kam Liu, Ted Belytschko, Ashfaq Adnan, |
7.12 & 14.2 |
8 | DAMAGE, FRACTURE, AND FAILURE | ||
8.1 S1-S4 |
Composite Damage Modeling | Ryan Karkkainen, Bazle A. Gama, Qingda Yang | 8.1 |
8.2 S5-S7, S9 |
Damage and Failure Mechanics of Metals Across Different Length Scales | Kiran N Solanki, David L McDowell | 8.2 |
8.3 S1-S4 |
Recent Advances in Computational Fracture Mechanics | Xiaosheng Gao, Hiroshi Okada, Hashem M. Mourad, Francis L. Addessio, Richard Requeiro |
8.3 & 8.4 |
8.4 S1-S3 |
Continuum Modeling and Simulation of Dislocation Microstructures | Thomas Hochrainer, Erik van der Giessen, Peter Gumbsch | 8.5 |
9 | SOLID MECHANICS, STRUCTURAL MECHANICS, AND GEOMECHANICS | ||
9.1 S5-S7 |
Pavement Mechanics and Simulation | William G. Buttlar, Ernie Pan, John E. Bolander | 9.1 |
9.2 S4-S7 |
Emerging Computational Methods for Transient Non-Linear Problems with Multiple Temporal Scales | Arun Prakash, Kalyana Nakshatrala, K.C. Park, Adrian Lew, Greg Hulbert |
9.2 & 9.7 |
9.3 S7, S9 |
Computational Structural Stability | Herbert Mang, Yeong-Bin Yang | 9.4 |
9.4 S7, S9 |
Flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media | Kalyana Nakshatrala, Daniel Z. Turner | 9.5 |
9.5 S1-S4 |
Computational Geomechanics | Richard Regueiro, Ronaldo Borja, Boris Jeremic, Stein Sture | 9.6 |
10 | FLUIDS | ||
10.1 S1-S6 |
Computational Fluid Mechanics for Free and Moving Boundaries | Rekha Rao, David Noble, Scott Roberts, Patrick Anderson, Jean-François Hétu | 10.1 |
10.2 S1-S3 |
Advances in Hydrocode Methods and Applications | David Benson, Guglielmo Scovazzi, Mikhail Shashkov | 10.2 |
10.3 S7, S9 |
Unstructured High-Order Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics | Peter Vincent, Antony Jameson, Patrice Castonguay | 10.3 |
10.4 S4-S6 |
Finite Element Methods and High Performance Computing for Environmental Fluid Mechanics | Ethan Kubatko, Kazuo Kashiyama, Clint Dawson, Joannes Westerink | 10.4 |
11 | CONTACT, FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION, INTERFACES | ||
11.1 S9 |
Fluid-Structure Interaction Algorithms and Applications | Jonathan S. Pitt, Scott T. Miller | 11.2 |
11.2 S1-S2 |
Advances in the Modeling of Surface and Interface Mechanisms |
Roger A. Sauer, Lucy Zhang, Maryam Ghazisaeidi, Dallas R. Trinkle |
11.3 & 11.4 |
11.3 S1-S4 |
Advances in Numerical Modeling and Simulation of Impact and Blast Problems | Howie Fang, Qing Li, Guilin Wen, David C. Weggel | 11.5 |
11.4 S4-S6 |
Computational Modeling of Embedded and Contract Interfaces | Michael Puso, Peter Wriggers, Tod Laursen, Jerome Solberg |
11.6 |
11.5 S7 |
Innovative Methods for Fluid Structure Interaction | Trond Kvamsdal, Roger Ohayon, Harald van Brummelen | 11.7 |
12 | OPTIMIZATION, INVERSE PROBLEMS | ||
12.1 S1-S6 |
Recent advances in Topology Optimization |
Krishnan Suresh, Glaucio H. Paulino, Emilio C.N. Silva, Kurt Maute, James Guest |
12.1 & 12.3 |
12.2 S7, S9 |
Inverse Problems: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications | Wilkins Aquino, Timothy F. Walsh, Assad Oberai, Paul Barbone | 12.2 |
13 | PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES | ||
13.1 S1-S5 |
Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Science and Engineering | Roger Ghanem, Christian Soize, Gerhart Schueller, Wing Kam Liu | 13.1 |
13.2 S7, S9 |
Randomness, Fractals, and Computational Mechanics | Paul N. Demmie, Martin Ostoja-Starzewski | 13.2 |
13.3 S7, S9 |
Image-Based and Statistics-Based Computational Modeling of Materials | Andrew B Geltmacher, Surya Kalidindi, Siddiq M Qidwai | 13.3 |
13.4 S4-S7 |
Adaptive Methods for Uncertainty Quantification | Michael S. Eldred, James R. Stewart | 13.4 |
13.5 S6-S7, S9 |
Computational Methodologies for Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic PDE-based Models for Predictive Simulations | Abani Patra, Omar Ghattas, Ernesto Prudencio, Onkar Sahni, Karl Schulz | 13.6 |
14 | BIO- AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS | ||
14.1 S1-S3 |
Computational Mechanics of Biological Tissues | Elisa Budyn, Patrick Chabrand, Thierry Hoc, Rob Krams | 14.1 |
14.2 S3-S4 |
Direct and Inverse Methods for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Biomechanics | C. Alberto Figueroa, Marek Behr, Jean-Frederic Gerbeau, Wolfgang Wall | 14.4 |
14.3 S7 |
Computational Bioengineering and Cancer Simulation | Yusheng Feng, J. Tinsley Oden, Suvranu De, Kris Van der Zee | 14.5 |
14.4 S5-S6 |
Mechanics of Biological Materials for Medicine and Bio-Inspired Engineering | Franck J Vernerey, Shaofan Li, Eduard Karpov | 14.6 |
15.1 S8 |
Student Poster Session | Chris Hogan | 15.1 |
16.1 S7 |
General Topics and Computer Sciences | Henryk Stolarski | 16.1 |