IACM/ECCOMAS Congress 2008

Wednesday, July 2nd 10:30 - 12:30
Minisymposium in Honor of Prof. O.C. Zienkiewicz I
Minisymposium organized by Robert Taylor and Perumal Nithiarasu

Room: EXC1.1
MS053A

10:30 Minisymposium in Honor of Prof. O.C. Zienkiewicz - Introduction
Robert L. Taylor and Perumal Nithiarasu

10:50 Advances in the Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM)
Ted Belytschko, Jeong-Hoon Song, Robert Gracie and Jay Oswald

11:10 Accurate upper Bound of the Discretization Error in XFEM through a Recovery-Based Technique and Error Estimation of the Recovered Solution
Juan José Ródenas, Pedro Díez, Octavio Andrés González Estrada and Javier Fuenmayor

11:30 Combining Linear Tetrahedral Elements to Solve Problems with Incompressible Behaviour through an Iterative Force Based Method
Bijan Boroomand, Kazem Kamran and Eugenio Oñate

11:50 Computation of Ice Loads on Structures in the Arctic
Pål G. Bergan and Gus Cammaert

12:10 Multiscale Approach for Nonlinear Inelastic Behavior of Heterogeneous Materials
Adnan Ibrahimbegovic, Delphine Brancherie, Sergiy Melnyk and Damijan Markovic

Wednesday, July 2nd 14:00 - 16:00
Minisymposium in Honor of Prof. O.C. Zienkiewicz II
Minisymposium organized by Robert Taylor and Perumal Nithiarasu

Room: EXC1.1
MS053B

14:00 New Generation of Rotation-Free Triangles for Analysis of Thin and Thick Plates and Shells
Eugenio Oñate

14:20 Vibrations of Structures Containing Liquids - Hydroelastic/Sloshing Interactions and Compressibility Effects
Roger Ohayon and Jean-Sebastien Schotte

14:40 Three Level Finite Element Method
George Mejak

15:00 Numerical Abacuses Method based on the Equivalence between the Closest Point Projection and a Geometrical Bounded Problem
Siegfried Maïolino

15:20 3d Numerical Modelling of Dynamic Saturated Soil and Pore Fluid Interaction
Jianhua Ou and Andrew Chan

15:40 The Role of Finite Elements in the Design of Particle Accelerators & Medical Science
Bill Trowbridge

Wednesday, July 2nd 16:30 - 18:30
Minisymposium in Honor of Prof. O.C. Zienkiewicz III
Minisymposium organized by Robert Taylor and Perumal Nithiarasu

Room: EXC1.1
MS053C

16:30 The P-Version of the Finite Element Method
Ernst Rank and Alexander Düster

16:50 Staggered Procedures Revisited – Initial Fondest Hopes, Ensuing Applications, and Future Prospects
K. C. Park and Carlos A. Felippa

17:10 3D Nurbs-Enhanced Finite Element Method (NEFEM)
Antonio Huerta, Rubén Sevilla and Sonia Fernández-Méndez

17:30 An Ale Based CBS Algorithm for Non-isothermal Non-newtonian Flow with Adaptive Coupled Finite Element and Meshfree Method
Xikui Li, Qinglin Duan, Xianhong Han and Xuanping Wang

17:50 An Artificial Compressibility Algorithm for Modelling Natural Convection in Saturated Packed Pebble Beds: A Heterogeneous Approach
Arnaud G. Malan, Coert Visser and J.P. Meyer

Thursday, July 3rd 10:30 - 12:30
Minisymposium in Honor of Prof. O.C. Zienkiewicz IV
Minisymposium organized by Robert Taylor and Perumal Nithiarasu

Room: EXC1.1
MS053D

10:30 Fluid Structure Interaccion with High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Jaime Peraire, Per-Olof Persson and David Willis

10:50 The Characteristic / Inertial Galerkin Method applied to Shallow Water Flows
Ramon Codina

11:10 An Iterated Upwind Method for Incompressible and Compressible Fluids
Joanna Szmelter and Piotr Smolarkiewicz

11:30 CBS Methodology for Environmental Hydraulics. A Continuous FEM Competitive Choice
Pablo Ortiz

11:50 Very Low Mach Number Problems and the CBS Scheme: Non-Hydrostatic Atmospherics Modelling for Numerical Weather Prediction
Mariano Vázquez and Guillaume Houzeaux

12:10 Artificial Compressibility CBS Scheme for the Generalized Porous Medium Model
Fausto Arpino, Nicola Massarotti, Alessandro Mauro and Perumal Nithiarasu