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Title:
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Scalable Solution Algorithms for Computational Mechanics

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Organizers:
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Saikat Dey
email: dey@pa.nrl.navy.mil
(Naval Research Lab/SFA Inc.)
2200 Defense Highway, Suite 405, Crofton MD 21114

Charbel Farhat
email: cfarhat@stanford.edu
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering
and Professor, by courtesy, of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Building 500, Room 501G
488 Escondido Mall
Mailcode 3035
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

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Minisymposium description:
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Advances in mathematical modeling of problems in mechanics coupled 
with their error-controlled discretization, like those based on 
high-order and enriched finite element methods, have made computational 
mechanics a mainstream discipline. 

Increasing demands on the accuracy of the numerical solution, along
with increased complexity of the domains and applications, 
like multi-physics and coupled problems, are giving rise to very 
large-scale problems that require solution algorithms that scale
well in a concurrent computing environment.

Scalability of solution algorithms is impacted by many factors 
including, choice of mathematical model, discretization method, and
the method for the solution of the algebraic system. 

This symposium invites discussion of developments that impact 
scalable solution of problems in computational mechanics arising
from a diverse range of applications covering wave propagation, 
structural-dynamics, acoustics, electromagnetics and fluid-dynamics.

Broad areas of interest include, but are not limited to, advances in 
iterative (multi-grid and domain-decomposition) and direct methods 
for large-scale algebraic systems; scalable methods for multi-physics 
coupled problems and  wave-dependent problems at mid-to-high 
frequency regimes.