ICCM 2010 Minisymposium on Meshfree and Particle Methods(November 19^th-21^st, Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China)

A minisymposium on Meshfree and Particle Methods will be organized for the International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM) 2010. ICCM 2010 will be organized and hosted by College of Mechanical & Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University during November 19^th-21^st, 2010 in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China. Please check the ICCM 2010 website http://dmvb.hnu.cn/ICCM2010 for more information about the conference and the venue.

As compared with the finite element method and other traditional mesh-based methods, meshfree and particle methods have shown promising potential as robust spatial discretization schemes without fixed mesh connectivity, and have been successfully applied to those challenging problems involving ultra-large deformation, dynamic fracture propagation, impact and explosion, fluid-structure interaction, and multi-scale and multi-physical phenomena.

We hope that researchers and engineers who have been working on or are interested in meshfree and particle methods could exchange their ideas and research results in this minisymposium. Presentations are solicited in all the subtopics related to meshfree and particles methods, which include but are not limited to the following:

• Mathematical theory and error estimation
• New techniques and improvements
• Code implementation and engineering software development
• Parallel computation
• Coupling and/or adaptive analysis
• Meshfree/particle-based multiscale analysis
• Meshfree/particle-based optimization and analysis of inverse problems
• Applications with obvious advantages over traditional mesh-based methods
• Modern engineering applications

You are kindly invited to submit a 1-page abstract to 该邮件地址已受到反垃圾邮件插件保护。要显示它需要在浏览器中启用 JavaScript。 by July 15^th, 2010. The abstract format (Word or TeX format) can be downloaded from the website (http://dmvb.hnu.cn/ICCM2010) after May 15^th, 2010. Selected papers presented in the mini-symposium may be peer-reviewed for possible publication in the International Journal of Computational Methods.

Minisymposium organizers:

Prof. ZHANG, Xiong (该邮件地址已受到反垃圾邮件插件保护。要显示它需要在浏览器中启用 JavaScript。)

School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Prof. CHEN, Zhen (该邮件地址已受到反垃圾邮件插件保护。要显示它需要在浏览器中启用 JavaScript。)

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-2200, USA

Dr. LIU, Yan (该邮件地址已受到反垃圾邮件插件保护。要显示它需要在浏览器中启用 JavaScript。)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA

School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China