Current Status of Special Sessions

The following special sessions are being organized for the Conference. If you are interested in contributing to one of these sessions, please contact the Organizer(s).

Recent Advances in BEM

Organized by: D. E. Beskos, University of Patras, Greece
Email:d.e.beskos@upatras.gr


Differential Quadrature and the Related Discrete Element Analysis Methods

Organized by: Chang-New Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Email:cchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw


Dynamic Instabilities and Nonlinear Oscillations with Convecting Fluid Flows

Organized by:Earl H. Dowell, Duke University, U. S. A.
Email:dowell@ee.duke.edu


Finite Element Formulations for Metal Forming Analysis

Organized by: Eduardo N. Dvorkin, SIDERCA, Argentina
Email: dvk@siderca.com


Finite Element Applications in the Steel Industry

Organized by: Eduardo N. Dvorkin, SIDERCA, Argentina
Email: dvk@siderca.com


Finite Element Modeling of Civil Engineering Structures

Organized by: Hany J. Farran, California State University, Pomona, U. S. A.
Email: hjfarran@csupomona.edu


Computational Multiphysics

Organized by: Carlos Felippa, University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A.
Email: carlos@titan.colorado.edu


Numerical Approximation of Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems

Organized by: Lucia Gastaldi and Daniele Boffi, University of Pavia, Italy
Email:gastaldi@dragon.ian.pv.cnr.it and boffi@dimat.unipv.it


Numerical Simulation of Liquid/Solid Particulate Flow

Organized by: Roland Glowinski, University of Houston, U. S. A.
Email: roland@math.uh.edu


Incompressible Flow Simulations

Organized by: Mohamed Hafez, University of California, Davis, U.S.A.
Email: mhafez@ucdavis.edu


Meshless Methods for Solids and Fluids

Organized by: Sergio Idelsohn, INTEC, Argentina and Suvranu De, MIT, U.S.A.
Email: sergio@cimne.upc.es and suvranu@mit.edu


Computational Methods in Biological Modeling

Organized by: Roger D. Kamm, MIT, U. S. A.
Email: rdkamm@mit.edu


Computational Biomechanics

Organized by: Guoan Li, Harvard Medical School, U. S. A.
Email:  gli@exchange.caregroup.harvard.edu


Numerical Methods for Fluid-Structure Coupling

Organized by: Hermann Matthies, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Email: H.Matthies@tu-bs.de


Computational Modeling for Motor Car Safety Analysis

Organized by: Yih-Charng Deng, General Motors, U. S. A.
Email: Yih-Charng.Deng@gm.com


CFD in the Motor Car Industry

Organized by: Keith Meintjes, General Motors, U.S.A.
Email: Keith.Meintjes@gm.com


Multidisciplinary Optimization

Organized by: Simon Xu, General Motors, U. S. A.
Email: Simon.Xu@gm.com


Computational Mechanics of Material Failure

Organized by: Thomas Siegmund, Purdue University, U. S. A.
Email: siegmund@ecn.purdue.edu


Geotechnical Modeling

Organized by: Scott Sloan, University of Newcastle, Australia
Email: scott.sloan@newcastle.edu.au


Instability Analysis of Fluid-Solid Systems

Organized by: Xiaodong Wang, Polytechnic University of New York, U. S. A.
Email:  xwang@poly.edu


Design Optimization

Organized by: Grant Steven, University of Sydney, Australia (University of Durham until August 1, 2000, email: grant.steven@durham.ac.uk)
Email: grant@aero.usyd.edu.au


Impact Dynamics

Organized by: Joseph Tedesco, Auburn University, U. S. A.
Email: jtedesco@eng.auburn.edu


Computational Durability Mechanics

Organized by: Franz-Josef Ulm, MIT, U. S. A.
Email:  ulm@mit.edu


Latency-Tolerant Algorithms

Organized by: Greg Astfalk, Hewlett-Packard, U. S. A.
Email:  greg_astfalk@hp.com


Adaptive Laminated Shell Modeling

Organized by: Paolo Gaudenzi, University of Rome, Italy
Email: paolo@gaudenzi.ing.uniroma1.it


Computational Fracture Mechanics of Concrete

Organized by: Christian Meyer, Columbia University, U. S. A.
Email: meyer@civil.columbia.edu


Computational Predictability of Natural Convection Flows in Enclosures

Organized by: Mark A. Christon, Livermore Software Technology Corporation, U. S. A.
Email: christon@lstc.com


Aero-acoustics for the Automotive Design – Current Problems and Potential Solutions

Organized by: Richard Sun, DaimlerChrysler, U. S. A. and Mark A. Christon, Livermore Software Technology Corporation
Email: rls37@daimlerchrysler.com and christon@lstc.com


Computational Stochastic Structural Analysis

Organized by: Gerhart Schuëller, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Email: G.I.Schueller@uibk.ac.at


Confessions of Computational Modelers

Organized by: Mark A. Bradford, University of New South Wales, Australia
Email:m.bradford@unsw.edu.au


Adaptive Finite Element Analysis

Organized by: C. S. Krishnamoorthy, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Email:  moorthy@cfead.iitm.ernet.in


High Performance Computing for Engineering Design Optimization

Organized by: C. S. Krishnamoorthy, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Email: moorthy@cfead.iitm.ernet.in


Reliability-Based Structural Optimization

Organized by: C. S. Krishnamoorthy, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Email: moorthy@cfead.iitm.ernet.in


Analysis of Shells

Organized by: Wilfried B. Krätzig, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Email address: Wilfried.B.Kraetzig@sd.ruhr-uni-bochum.de


Structural Topology Optimization

Organized by: Gengdong Cheng, Dalian University of Technology, P. R. China
Email: chenggd@dlut.edu.cn


Teaching of FEM

Organized by: John L. Meek, University of Queensland, Australia
Email: e2meek@brolga.cc.uq.edu.au


High Performance Computing in Structural Mechanics

Organized by: Manolis Papadrakakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Email:  mpapadra@central.ntua.gr


Mesh Generation and Adaptive Analysis

Organized by: Soo-Won Chae, Korea University, South Korea
Email:  swchae@korea.ac.kr


Structural Optimization

Organized by: John Bull, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom and Grant Steven, University of Sydney, Australia (University of Durham until August 1, 2000, email: grant.steven@durham.ac.uk)
Email:  J.W.Bull@newcastle.ac.uk and grant@aero.usyd.edu.au


Techniques for Developing Low Order Models

Organized by: J. Peraire, MIT, U. S. A. and A. T. Patera, MIT, U. S. A.
Email:  patera@mit.edu and peraire@mit.edu


Graphs, Matroids and Combinatorics in Structural Mechanics

Organized by: Ali Kaveh, Iran University of Science & Technology, Iran
Email:  alikaveh@iust.ac.ir

Advances in Contact Mechanics: Theory, Implementation & Applications

Organized by S. A. Meguid, University of Toronto, Canada and N. El-Abbasi, MIT, U.S.A.
Email: meguid@mie.utoronto.ca and elabbasi@mit.edu
Webpage location: www.mie.utoronto.ca/labs/emdl/contactmit


The First M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics incorporates the 12th Annual HP Technology Trends in Computational Engineering Symposium. This symposium consists of --

Software Program Vendor Sessions

Session 1 – CFD


Session 2 – Structures


Session 3 – Crash


Session 4 - NVH


Organized by: Knute Christensen, Hewlett-Packard Company, U.S.A. and K. J. Bathe, MIT, U. S. A.
Email: knute@rsn.hp.com and kjb@mit.edu