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Title:
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Computational methods in biological growth and remodeling

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Organizers:
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Krishna Garikipati
University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering, and Applied Physics
3003B EECS
Tel: +1-734-936-0414, Fax: +1-734-647-9379
krishna@umich.edu
www-personal.umich.edu/~krishna

Dr. Ellen Kuhl
Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Email: ekuhl@rhrk.uni-kl.de
Phone number: +49 631 205 2126
Fax number: +49 631 205 2128 

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Minisymposium description:
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This symposium will focus on theoretical and computational methods for mass and volumetric 
change (`growth') and microstructural changes (`remodeling') in biomechanical problems. 
Over the past two decades, a number of theoretical approaches have been laid down to explain 
functional adaptation of biological tissues. Included among them are the classical theory of 
adaptive elasticity, open system thermodynamics, reaction diffusion in porous media, mixture 
theories and different theories of microstructural evolution.

Within this minisymposium, we would like to turn the focus somewhat to the challenges related 
to the computational realization of these theories, while still recognizing the need for 
continued theoretical development. With these aims in mind, we invite abstracts addressing 
(but not necessarily restricted to) the following topics of relevance to biological growth 
and remodeling:

* further development of growth and remodeling theories
* algorithms for multifield phenomena of mechanics, transport and reaction
* appropriate formulation and time discretization of biological rate equations
* computational treatment of scale interaction in space and time
* the role of computational homogenization techniques
* relaxation methods in microstructural evolution