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

Hi All,

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 19th-21st, 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 ultralarge
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 yliu.mech@gmail.com by July 15th, 2010. The
abstract format (Word or TeX format) can be downloaded from the website
(http://dmvb.hnu.cn/ICCM2010) after May 15th, 2010. Selected papers presented in the minisymposium
may be peer-reviewed for possible publication in the International Journal of
Computational Methods.

Minisymposium organizers:
Prof. ZHANG, Xiong (xzhang@tsinghua.edu.cn)
School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Prof. CHEN, Zhen (ChenzH@missouri.edu)
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-2200, USA

Dr. LIU, Yan (yliu.mech@gmail.com)
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China