Congress Minisymposia
Below is a list of the USNCCM13 minisymposia. Click on the title for a description. Abstract submission is now closed.
Please note that some MS titles have been renumbered. The information listed below is up to date.
000 Honorary Minisymposia
001 Minisymposium in Memory of Ted Belytschko: Advances in Meshfree, Particle, XFEM, GFEM, and Related Methods, Stéphane P.A. Bordas, J. S. Chen, Zhen Chen, Armando Duarte, John Foster, Jack S. Hale, Xikui Li, Wing Kam Liu, Nicolas Moes, Timon Rabczuk, Marc Alexander Schweitzer, Dongdong Wang, C. T. Wu
100 Biological Systems
101 Topics in Computational Biomechanics, David Pierce, Rafael Grytz
102 Folds, Twists and Bends: Differential Growth-Induced Morphoogy in Biology and Physics, Krishna Garikipati, Ellen Kuhl
103 Computational Bioengineering, Suvranu De, Yusheng Feng, Mohammad R. K. Mofrad
104 Modeling of Vascular Tissue, Arun Srinivasa, Sevan Goenezen
105 Biomedical Fluid Mechanics and FSI, Kenji Takizawa, Ming-Chen Hsu, Tayfun Tezduyar, Yuri Bazilevs
106 Biomechanics Modeling: Advances and Applications, Petr Krysl
107 Recent Advances in Small-Scale Bio/Inorganic Interface Research, Xianqiao Wang, Changhong Ke, Xiaowei Zeng, Ying Li
108 Contemporary Models of Soft Biosolids: Biological Tissues, Scaffolds, and Cells, Michael Sacks, Greg Rodin, Victor Barocas
109 Parallel Processing Techniques and Applications in Medicine, Tansel Halic, Sreekanth Arikatla, Sinan Kockara, Mutlu Mete
110 Computational Mechanics and Biology of Human Tissues, Elisa Budyn, Patrick Chabrand, Thierry Hoc, Rob Krams
111 Direct and Inverse Methods for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Biomechanics, Marek Behr, Alberto Figueroa, Wolfgang Wall
112 Computational Modeling and Simulation of the Cardiovascular System, Daniel Balzani, Boyce Griffith, Gerhard Holzapfel, William Klug, Alison Marsden
113 Phase Field Methods for Moving Interfaces in Physics and Biology, Krishna Garikipati, Marino Arroyo, Victor Calo, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Hector Gomez, Shiva Rudraraju
200 Flow Problems
201 Advances in Computational Methods for Modeling Transport in Porous Media, Rohan Panchadhara, Laurent White
202 Flows With Moving Boundaries and Interfaces, Ming-Chen Hsu, Tayfun Tezduyar, Yuri Bazilevs
203 International Symposium of High-order Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Chunlei Liang, Krzysztof Fidkowski, Per-Olof Persson, Peter Vincent
204 Simulation Techniques for Particulate Flow Problems, Peter Wriggers, Eugenio Oñate, Bircan Avci
205 Free and Moving Boundary Problems: Methods and Applications, Rekha Rao, Scott Roberts, David Noble, Jonathan Clausen, Patrick Anderson, Elie Hachem
206 Numerical Solution of the Incompressible Navier Stokes Equations: Old and New Challenges, Alessandro Veneziani, Simone Deparis, Alfio Quarteroni
207 Finite Element Methods and High-Performance Computing for Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Ethan Kubatko, Kazuo Kashiyama, Clint Dawson
208 Large Eddy and Direct Numerical Simulations with Geophysical Applications, Andres Tejada-Martinez, Sutanu Sarkar, Lian Shen
209 Advances in Turbulence-Resolving Computations and Applications to Complex Flows, Andres Tejada-Martinez, Kenneth Jansen, Michel Rasquin
210 Modeling Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media, Kalyana Babu Nakshatrala, Satish Karra, Hari Viswanathan
300 Multiscale Problems
301 Multiscale Computational Homogenization for Bridging Scales in the Mechanics and Physics of Complex Materials, Julien Yvonnet, Kenjiro Terada, Marc Geers, Peter Wriggers, Maenghyo Cho
302 Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Computations in Fluids and Solids, Yozo Mikata, Glaucio Paulino
303 Recent Progress in Multi-scale Modeling at the Intersection of Ab-initio Methods, Mechanics and Mathematics, Vikram Gavini, Phanish Suryanarayana, Amartya S Banerjee
304 Concurrent Multi-Length Scale Modeling: from Finite Elements to Atoms and Electrons, Qing Peng, Shaofan Li, Suvranu De
305 Multiscale Modeling and Characterization of Multiphysics for Nano, Bio and Smart Materials, James Lee, Jiaoyan Li
306 Computational, Multiscale and Experimental Mechanics of Fibers and Fibrous Materials, Lars Beex, Damien Durville, Artem Kulachenko
307 Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Fracture and Damage in Quasi-Brittle Solids, Ahmed Elbanna, Robert Haber, Reza Abedi
308 Multiscale Modeling of Granular Materials, Ahmed Elbanna, Waiching Sun
309 Atomistic Computation of Continuum Quantities, Nikhil Chandra Admal, Marino Arroyo, Pradeep Sharma
310 Multiscale Simulation for Failure and Uncertainty Quantification in Engineering Applications, John Emery, Joseph Bishop, Jacob Hochhalter, Somnath Ghosh
400 Damage Fracture and Failure
401 Computational Stability Analysis, Herbert Mang, Yeon-Bin Yang
402 Numerical Methods for Hydraulic Fracture Simulation, Dakshina Valiveti, Fushen Liu, Peter Gordon
403 Numerical Modeling and Computational Methods of Impact and Blast Problems, Howie Fang, David Weggel, Qing Li, Qian Wang
404 Recent Advances in Computational Fracture Mechanics, Hiroshi Okada, Xiaosheng Gao, Toshio Nagashima
405 Ductile Fracture, Soondo Kweon, Amine Benzerga
406 Computational Fracture Mechanics, Christian Linder, Adrian Lew, N. Sukumar
407 Cohesive Zone Models – Fundamentals and Multiscale Applications, Kyoungsoo Park, Glaucio Paulino
408 Computational Modeling of Extreme Loading Environments, Robert Ferencz, Kent Danielson, David Littlefield
409 Computational and Experimental Investigation of Manmade and Natural Disasters, J.S. Chen, Yuri Bazilevs, Sheng-Wei Chi, Eliot Fang, Pai-Chen Guan, Gilbert Hegemier, Jason Roth, Lauren Stewart
410 Mathematical and Numerical Modeling of Degradation of Materials and Structures, Kalyana Babu Nakshatrala, Daniel Turner, Kaspar Willam, Roberto Ballarini
412 Pavement Mechanics and Simulation Mini-Symposium, Eshan Dave, William Buttlar, Ernian Pan, Silvia Caro, John Bolander
413 Modeling Dynamic Response of Heterogeneous Materials, Caglar Oskay, Varvara Kouznetsova, Siavouche Nemat-Nasser
414 Recent Advances in Mesh Adaptivity for Inelasticity, Damage, Crack Propagation and Failure, James Foulk III, Alejandro Mota, Michael Veilleux, John Emery
500 Optimization, Inverse Problems, and Imaging
501 Computational Methods in Image Analysis, Joao Tavares, Renato Jorge, Yongjie Zhang
502 Immersed/Embedded/Fictitious Domain Methods and Their Application in Analysis and Optimization, Dominik Schillinger, Fehmi Cirak , Alexander Düster, Isaac Harari, Ming-Chen Hsu, Martin Ruess
503 Model and Solution Reduction Methods for Direct and Inverse Problems in Computational Mechanics, Simona Perotto, Pablo Blanco, Alessandro Veneziani
504 Optimization with CFD, Sanjay Mittal
505 Advances in Topological Optimization with Application to Advanced Manufacturing, Miguel A. Aguilo, Thomas Voth, Joshua Robbins
506 Advances in Computational Methods for Inverse Problems, Assad Oberai, Wilkins Aquino, Paul Barbone
600 Enabling Technologies
601 Enabling Software and Hardware Techologies Towards Exascale, Alvaro Coutinho, Guillaume Houzeaux, William Barth
602 Iterative Methods and Parallel Computing, Shinobu Yoshimura, Ahmed Sameh, Hiroshi Kawai
604 Challenges in Scientific Computing at Extreme Scale, Onkar Sahni, Mark Shephard, Abani Patra, Martin Berzin
606 Algorithmic Aspects of High-Performance Computing for Mechanics and Physics, Santiago Badia, Victor Calo, Javier Principe
700 Numerical Methods
701 Isogeometric Methods, Alessandro Reali, Yuri Bazilevs, David J. Benson, René De Borst, Trond Kvamsdal, Thomas J.R. Hughes, Giancarlo Sangalli, Clemens V. Verhoosel
702 Peridynamics and Its Applications, Erdogan Madenci, Florin Bobaru, Erkan Oterkus
703 Advanced Finite Elements for Complex-Geometry Computations: Tetrahedral Algorithms and Related Methods, Guglielmo Scovazzi, Michael Gee, Antonio Gil
704 Advances in the Boundary Element Method, Yijun Liu, Naoshi Nishimura, Martin Schanz, Ernie Pan
705 Quasicontinuum and Other Atomistic-to-Continuum Coupling Techniques, Dennis Kochmann, Ellad Tadmor, Jaime Marian, David Chen
706 Advancement in Hydrocodes, Efrem Vitali, Mikhail Shashkov, Guglielmo Scovazzi, Shigenobu Okazawa
707 Isogeometric Methods for Complex and Multi-physics Systems, John Evans, Michael Scott, Yuri Bazilevs
708 Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation - MeshTrends 10, Steven Owen, Matthew Staten, Mark Shephard, Franck Ledoux
709 Advances in Numerical Methods For Linear and Non-Linear Dynamics and Coupled Systems, Alexander Idesman, Gregory Hulbert, Ilinca Stanciulescu, Ignacio Romero
710 Advances and Applications of the Generalized/Extended Finite Element Method, Armando Duarte, Angelo Simone, Patrick O'Hara
711 Polygonal and Polyhedral Discretizations in Computational Mechanics, N. Sukumar, Andrew Gillette, Joe Bishop, Gianmarco Manzini
712 Computational Methods for Modeling Interfaces with Complex/Evolving Topologies, Ravindra Duddu, Soheil Soghrati, Olga Wodo, Chandrasekhar Annavarapu
713 Advances in Meshfree, Particle, XFEM, GFEM, and Related Methods, [THIS MINISYMPOSIUM IS REPLACED BY MS 001]
714 Voronoi Dual Meshing and Simulation, Scott Mitchell, Mohamed Ebeida
715 Advances in Implicit / Explicit (IMEX) Time integration of Multiphysics Systems, John Shadid, Eric Cyr
716 Recent Advances in High Order Finite Element Methods, Leszek Demkowicz, Tan Bui-Thanh, Per-Olof Persson
800 Fluid-Structure Interaction and Contact
801 Fluid Structure Interaction Algorithms and Applications, Jonathan Pitt, Scott Miller
802 Immersed and Advanced Fluid-Structure Interaction Computational Strategies, Christian Hesch, Antonio J. Gil, Wolfgang A. Wall
803 Fluid–Structure Interaction, Tayfun Tezduyar, Kenji Takizawa, Ming-Chen Hsu
804 Computational Modeling of Contact and Embedded Interfaces, Mike Puso, Peter Wriggers, Tod Laursen, Jerome Solberg
805 Advanced Discretization Methods for Interface Problems: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, Andre Massing, Pavel Bochev, Mats G. Larson, Chris Siefert
807 Stabilized and Multiscale Methods for Interface Mechanics, Timothy Truster, Isaac Harari, Arif Masud
808 Innovative Methods for Fluid-Structure Interaction, E. Harald van Brummelen, Trond Kvamsdal, Roger Ohayon
809 Particle-Based Methods in Fluid Mechanics, Sergio Idelsohn, Eugenio Oñate
900 UQ, Error Estimation, and Probabilistic Approaches
901 Uncertainty Quantification Methods for Complex Mechanics Models, Paul Constantine, Alireza Doostan
902 Model Error Assessment in Computational Physical Models, Khachik Sargsyan, Habib Najm, Roger Ghanem
903 Uncertainty Quantification for High-dimensional Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Kenny Chowdhary, Habib Najm
904 Scalable Methods for Uncertainty Quantification, Michael Eldred, James Stewart, John Jakeman
905 Stochastic Methods in Computational Mechanics of Random Materials, Johann Guilleminot, Lori Graham-Brady, Michael Shields
906 Calibration, Validation, and Bayesian Approaches in Predictive Modeling and Simulation, Paul Bauman, Abani Patra, Damon McDougall, Tim Wildey
907 Randomness, Fractals, and Computational Mechanics, Paul Demmie, Martin Ostoja-Starzewski, Luis Costa
908 Applications of Error Estimation and Model Adaptation in Computational Mechanics, Serge Prudhomme, Ludovic Chamoin, Marc Laforest
909 Validation and Uncertainty Quantification in Real World Applications: Challenges & Opportunities, Kumar Vemaganti, Bhargava Sista
1000 Materials
1001 Microstructure-Governed Material Deformation: Theoretical and Computational Methods, Models and Outcomes, Jonathan Zimmerman, Fadi Abdeljawad, Donald Ward, Hojun Lim, Reese Jones
1002 Advanced Computational Method and Theory for Predicting Material Behaviors in Various Length Scales, Jeong-Hoon Song, Haim Waisman, Albert To, Alireza Tabarraei, Timon Rabczuk, Yao Fu
1003 Material Design and Material Optimization, Ekkehard Ramm, Junji Kato, Glaucio Paulino, Emilio Silva, Kenjiro Terada, Sergey Kuznetsov, James Guest, John Brigham
1004 Predictive Modeling of the Co-Evolution of Microstructure and Properties: 2nd Minisymposium, Pritam Chakraborty, Michael Tonks, David Field, Yunzhi Wang
1005 Multiphysical Modeling of Geomaterials, WaiChing Sun, Qiushi Chen, Craig Foster, Marcelo Javier Sanchez Castilla
1006 Non-Classical Continuum Models for Materials With Microstructure, Sergey Kuznetsov, Vladimir Erofeev
1007 Computational Modeling of Material Behavior in Extreme Environments, Jason Hales, Stephen Novascone, Benjamin Spencer
1008 Modeling Materials with Coupled Physics (thermo- electro- chemo- and magneto-mechanics), Stephan Rudykh, Sergey Kuznetsov
1009 Integration of Crystal Plasticity into Modeling and Simulations of Materials across Different Length and Time Scales, Minh-Son Pham, Anthony Rollett, Timothy Foecke, Adam Creuziger, Mark Iadicola, Jonathan Guyer
1010 Stochastic Material Characterization for Fiber Reinforced Composites, Prodyot Basu, Somnath Ghosh, Wei Chen
1011 Mechanical Properties of Randomly Cross-Linked Semiflexible Fibrous Materials, Hamed Hatami-Marbini
1012 Advances in Computational Methods for Heterogeneous Materials, Bo Li, Julian Rimoli, Marcial Gonzalez
1013 Modeling and Simulation of 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, Albert To, Lars-Erik Lindgren, Shaofan Li, Wing Kam Liu, Mesut Kirca, Jay Oswald, Dong Qian, Jeong-Hoon Song
