Multiphysics and multiscale modelling of composites for renewable energy applications

A Special Session on Multiphysics and multiscale modelling of composites for renewable energy applications is being organized within the 6th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials (SMART 2013, June 24-26, Torino, Italy), http://www.mul2.polito.it/smart13. Organizers are M. Paggi, L. De Lorenzis and A. Piccolroaz.

This special session, organized in the framework of the activities of the FIRB 2010 Future in Research Project "Structural Mechanics Models for Renewable Energy Applications" supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, aims at providing a forum for the discussion of multiphysics and multiscale models for composites and smart structures in engineering. Special focus will be given to renewable energy applications, i.e., photovoltaics, solid oxide fuel cells and mechanical energy harvesting.

Topics of interest include:

- Analytical and computational methods for coupled problems

- Multiscale analytical and computational methods

- Interface constitutive laws in multiphysics

- Fracture mechanics models in multiphysics

- Contact mechanics models in multiphysics

- Models for thermo-chemo-mechanical reactions in solid oxide fuel cells

- Models for mechanical energy harvesting processes and devices

Deadline for abstract submission is February 1, 2013.