IACM/ECCOMAS Congress 2008

Tuesday, July 1st 10:30 - 12:30
Advances in Multiscale and Multiphysics Methods: From Quantum to Continuum I
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium
Minisymposium organized by Dong Qian, Wing Kam Liu and Jacob Fish

Room: CAS3.3
MS265A

10:30 Characterization and Manipulation of Complex Biological/Nano Molecules (Keynote Lecture)
Wing Kam Liu

11:00 Partition of Unity Finite Element Method to Solve the Kohn-Sham Equations of Density Functional Theory (Keynote Lecture)
Natarajan Sukumar and John Pask

11:30 Thermal and Mechanical Field Decomposition in Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Albert To and Wing Kam Liu

11:50 Algorithmic Aspects of a Localized Bridging Scale Method
Satoshi Suzuki and Hiroshi Takeda

12:10 A Comparative Study of General Finite Element Techniques in Atomistic-to-Continuum Coupling (Keynote Lecture)
Michael Macri and Peter Chung

Tuesday, July 1st 14:00 - 16:00
Advances in Multiscale and Multiphysics Methods: From Quantum to Continuum II
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium
Minisymposium organized by Dong Qian, Wing Kam Liu and Jacob Fish

Room: CAS3.3
MS265B

14:00 Modeling Masonry Microstructure through Virtual Block Clusters
Luca Salvatori, Wing Kam Liu and Paolo Spinelli

14:20 Velocity Interfacial Conditions for Two-Atom Chains
Shaoqiang Tang

14:40 Enhanced Molecular Dynamics for Simulating Thermal and Charge Transport Phenomena
Reese E. Jones, Jeremy A. Templeton, Gregory J. Wagner, David Olmsted and Normand Modine

15:00 An Extended Bridging Domain Method for Continuum-Atomistic Simulations of Discontinuities
Robert Gracie and Ted Belytschko

15:20 Electronic Structures of Mechanically Deformed Silicon Nanowires
Ruiqin Zhang, A.J. Lu and S.T. Lee

15:40 Computational Improvement of Time-History-Kernel Non-reflecting Boundary Condition and its Preliminary Application in Laser-Assisted Nanoimprinting
Di-Bao Wang, Fei-Bin Hsiao and Wing Kam Liu

Tuesday, July 1st 16:30 - 18:30
Advances in Multiscale and Multiphysics Methods: From Quantum to Continuum III
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium
Minisymposium organized by Dong Qian, Wing Kam Liu and Jacob Fish

Room: CAS3.3
MS265C

16:30 Atomistic-continuum Coupling for Dynamic Crack Propagation
Pascal Aubertin, Rene de Borst and Julien Réthoré

16:50 Modeling Hot Rolling: A Study on the Microstructural Changes during the Austenite-Ferrite Phase Transformation in Dual Phase Steels
Stefan Benke, Jenny Rudnizki and Ulrich Prahl

17:10 Hybrid Model for Simulation of Magneto-Optical Response of Layers of Triple Quantum Dot Molecules
Oleksandr Voskoboynikov

17:30 Homogenized Model of Bone Poroelasticity and Deformation Induced Microflow
Eduard Rohan, Robert Cimrman, Salah Naili and Thibault Lemaire

17:50 A New Timoshenko Beam Model based on a Modified Couple Stress Theory
Hemei Ma, Xin-Lin Gao and J. N. Reddy