Updated Tuesday, October 24
Below is the program for the workshop. All sessions to be held at Embassy Suites Hotel - Busch Gardens/USF, Salon F
Sunday, October 26
6:30 - 7:30 pm Reception: Embassy Suites Hotel - Busch Gardens/USF; Bar lounge area
Monday, October 27
7:30 Registration
Session 1, Chair: John Foster
8:00-8:30 Gordon Johnson, Some Progress in the Utilization of Meshless Particle Methods for High-Velocity Impacts Involving Severe Distortions
8:30 - 9:00 Michael Roth, Meshfree Modeling of Projectile Peforation Using a Reproducing Kernel Particle Impact and Penetration Formulation
9:00 - 9:30 Florin Bobaru, How Do Thin Glass Plates Break from Impact? A Peridynamic Analysis
9:30 - 10:00 Haim Waisman, A Multiscale Method for Flaws Detection in Structures: The Power of XFEM in Inverse Type Problems
10:00 - 10:30 Break
Session 2, Chair: Daniel Simkins
10:30 - 11:00 W.K. Liu, An Overview of the Progress of Meshfree Particle Methods: From SPH to EFG to RKPM to Meshfree Peridynamics
11:00 - 11:30 Sheng-Wei Chi, Isogeometric Meshfree Analysis
11:30 - 12:00 David Littlewood, Integrating Meshfree Peridynamic Models with Classical Finite Element Analysis
12:00 - 12:30 C. Armando Duarte, What Does It Take for a New Computational Method to Be Adopted by Engineers?
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
Session 3, Chair: J.S. Chen
1:30 - 2:00 Qiang Du, Discontinuous Galerkin methods for nonlocal variational problems
2:00 - 2:30 Rich Lehoucq, Nonlocal kinematics for meshfree methods
2:30 - 3:00 Robert Lipton, Dynamic Brittle Fracture as a Macroscopic Limit of Unstable Mesocopic Dynamics
3:00 - 3:30 Deborah Sulsky, Convergence and Accuracy of the Material-Point Method
3:30 - 4:00 Break
Session 4, Chair: Antonio Huerta
4:00 - 4:30 Marc Alexander Schweitzer, Parallel Multilevel Partition of Unity Methods
4:30 - 5:00 N. Sukumar, Cell-based Maximum-entropy Approximants
5:00 - 5:30 Qinglin Duan, Consistent Meshfree Galerkin methods--Fast and Stable Domain Integration Schemes for High-order Meshfree Approximation
5:30 - 6:00 Dong Qian, Simulation of Failure with An Adaptive Space-time Bridging Scale Approach
7:00 Workshop Dinner, Embassy Suites
Tuesday, October 28
Session 5, Chair: Daniel Simkins
8:00-8:30 Antonio Huerta, Key Features of Mesh-free Methods Inspiring Other Approaches
8:30 - 9:00 Uday Banerjee, Conditioning of the Generalized Finite Element Method (GFEM) and its Effects on Iterative Solvers
9:00 - 9:30 John Pask, Finite Elements for Accurate, Large-scale Quantum Mechanical Materials Calculations: From Classical to Enriched to Discontinuous
9:30 - 10:00 John Foster, Fracture in Plates and Shells with Peridynamic Non-ordinary State-based Models
10:00 - 10:30 Break
Session 6, Chair: John Foster
10:30 - 11:00 Stewart Silling, Defects and Interfaces in Peridynamics: A Multiscale Approach
11:00 - 11:30 Shaofan Li, Peridynamics Simulations of Soil Fragmentation by Buried Explosives
11:30 - 12:00 Benjamin Seibold, Meshfree Methods for Pressure Poisson Equation Reformulations of the Navier-Stokes Equations
12:00 - 12:30 J.S. Chen, Recent Advances in Galerkin and Collocation Meshfree Methods
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
Session 7, Chair: J.S. Chen
1:30 - 2:00 C.T. Wu, Practical Metal Forging and Extrusion Simulations Using a Combined Adaptive Finite Element and Particle Method
2:00 - 2:30 Daniel Simkins, Practical Mesh Free Software Framework and Applications
2:30 - 3:00 Kent Danielson, Prediction and Validation of Lagrangian Meshfree Methods for Buried Explosive Effects