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Meshfree Methods for Large-Scale Computational Science and Engineering

Theory and Applications of Galerkin and Collocation Methods

Tampa, FL
October 27-28, 2014

 

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For administrative information about the workshop, contact Ruth Hengst at ruth@usacm.org.

Important Dates

April 1, 2014-August 20, 2014,  Submission of abstracts

August 15, 2014, Registration opens

August 25, 2014, Notification of acceptance

September 28, 2014, Late registration begins

October 27-28, 2014, Workshop

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Program

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

        

 

      

 

 

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