PARTICLES 2015 : 4th Int. Conf. Particle-Based Methods. Fundamentals and Applications

[Victorio Sonzogni]

Desde: 28-09-2015
Hasta: 30-09-2015
Lugar: Barcelona, Spain
 

We are pleased to announce the

4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods. Fundamentals and Applications - PARTICLES 2015

September 28-30, 2015

Barcelona, Spain

 

Dear Colleague,

 

The 4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods (PARTICLES 2015) will be organised on September 28-30, 2015 in Barcelona, Spain.

The previous three conferences of this series were held in Barcelona, Spain (25-27 November 2009 and 26-28 October 2011) and Stuttgart, Germany (18-20 October 2013).

 

PARTICLES 2015 will address both the fundamental basis and the applicability of state of the art particle-based computational methods that can be effectively used for solving a variety of problems in engineering and applied sciences.

 

The denotation "Particle-Based Methods" basically stands for two different computational models in solid and fluid mechanics.

On the one hand it represents discretization concepts in which the response of a continuum is projected onto "particles" carrying the mechanical information during deformations. Typical representatives are Meshless Methods, Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics (SPH), Moving Particle Simulation (MPS), Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM), Material Point Method (MPM) and the Lattice-Boltzmann-Method (LBM).

On the other hand, the notion expresses the computational representation of physical particles existing on different scales. Classical versions are Molecular Dynamics (MD) or the Discrete (Distinct) Element Method (DEM). Here either the particles exist a priori like in granular matters or they evolve during the loading process. In some cases the two models of discretization and physical particles are even interconnected.


PARTICLES 2015 will cover both concepts because of their strong interrelation in their computation as well as application points of view. Detailed information is available at the conference web site. The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 12, 2015.


We kindly invite you to note down the conference dates in your agenda and inform other colleagues who might be interested in attending Particles 2015. We thank you for your cooperation and look forward to welcoming you in Barcelona in September 2015.

 

Best regards,

 

The organizing committee of Particles2015,

 

Eugenio Oñate (Chair), Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Manfred Bischoff, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany

D.R.J. Owen, Swansea Univ., UK

Peter Wriggers, Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Germany

Tarek Zohdi, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA