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