BICTAM Workshop on Meshfree/Meshless and particle methods

1.       Theme of the Conference

Since the invention of the finite element method (FEM) in the 1950s, FEM has become the most popular and widely used method in science and engineering computations.

However, in the simulation of many engineering problems, such as manufacturing processes, hypervelocity impact and explosive, it is necessary to deal with extremely large deformations of the mesh. These problems are not well suited to the conventional finite element due to mesh distortion and element entanglement. Therefore, the development of new meshfree/meshless and particle methods has been a very active research area in past fifteen years. Many novel methods such as EFG, RKPM, SPH, MPM, GFEM/XFEM, MLPG/LBIE, NEM, PIM, etc., have been successfully developed and applied in science and engineering computations.

While considerable advances of various meshfree and particle methods and their applications have been made, many challenges in the mathematical analysis and practical implementation of meshfree methods remain. This symposium aims to promote collaboration among engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists and industrial researchers to address the development, mathematical analysis, future directions and application of meshfree and particle methods.

2.       Topics

New techniques and improvements in meshfree and particle methods

Meshfree-based multiple scale models

Coupling and adaptive meshfree methods

Implementation in meshfree and particle method

parallel computation in meshfree and particle method

Computer codes of meshfree and particle methods

Engineering applications of meshfree and particle methods

Identification and characterization of problems where meshfree and particle methods have clear advantage over classical methods

Identification of future opportunities

Other related aspects of meshfree and particle methods

3.       Dates

October, 2009

4.       Number of Participants

The pioneer in this field, Ted Belytchko has accepted the invitation to give the Plenary Lecture. S. Valliappan, Vice President of IACM, Sergio Idelsohn, the Secretary General, Genki Yagawa, APACM secretary general,  W. K. Liu, outstanding pioneer in this field, J. S. Chen, Dean of Engineering of UCLA and Liu Gui-Rong, President of the Singapore Association for Computational Mechanics, will co-chair this meeting.

Doctoral candidate is encouraged to attend this event.

Participants：50－100

5.       Organizer

Yuan Mingwu

Professor, Executive Council Member, IACM

Dept. of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, 100871, Beijing

Telephone: +86-10 62751826; Fax: +86-10 62759806

Email: yuanmw@pku.edu.cn