17th IUTAM Summer School on: Modelling and Simulation of Multiscale Continuum Systems
June 28, 2010 — July 2, 2010
Coordinators:
- Tarek Zohdi (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- Panayiotis Papadopoulos (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
In many modern engineering systems, materials with highly complex microstructures undergoing multiphysical processes are now in wide use. The focus of this CISM lecture series is to address recent advances in modeling and computational issues describing multiscale-multiphysical system behavior. The themes to be addressed are:
1) Coupled system behavior,
2) Micro-macro scale relationships and
3) Inverse problems.
Examples are to be drawn from across disciplines: solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, electromagnetics, etc.
The lectures will have appeal to researchers in applied mathematics, mechanics, engineering and physics with interests in computer simulation of multiscale systems experiencing multifield responses.
The objective is to illustrate techniques which enable fast and accurate predictions of new high performance complex material behavior by direct numerical simulation, with the goal being to reduce costly, time consuming, trial and error laboratory analyses. The specific topics include modeling and methods for modern three-dimensional large scale computations.
The course is addressed to doctoral students and young researchers.
Keywords: Continuum Mechanics, Finite Element Methods, Computational Mechanics, Multifield Problems