X-DMS 2015 hosts Minisyposia on several specialized topics. Conference participants are allowed to select any of the available Minisymposia to present their contribution, or let the Organizing Committe to allocate their presentation. The Organizing Committee will try to comply with all Authors requests.
The available Minisymposia at X-DMS 2015 and the relevant MS Organizers are:
Coupling methods for the local enrichment of FE models
- Pierre Gosselet (LMT-Cachan, France)
- Jean-Charles Passieux (Université de Toulouse, France)
- Ernst Rank (TU München, Germany)
Smooth approximations on unstructured nodal discretizations: finite elements, spline-based techniques and meshfree
- N. Sukumar (UC Davis, USA)
- Marino Arroyo (UPC Barcelona-Tech, Spain)
Applications of XFEM/GFEM to practical engineering problems
- C. Armando Duarte (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
- Haim Waisman (Columbia University, USA)
- Angelo Simone (TU Delft, the Netherlands)
Non-linear Moving interface problems (contact, dynamic loadings)
- Anthony GRAVOUIL (Université de Lyon, INSA-Lyon, LaMCoS, CNRS UMR5259, France)
- Nicolas MOES (LUNAM Université, Ecole Centrale Nantes, GeM UMR CNRS 6183, France)
- Eugenio GINER (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
- Thomas Elguedj (Université de Lyon, France)
- Benoit Prabel (CEA‐Saclay, France)
- Vincent Faucher (CEA‐Saclay, France)
Phase field and enhanced finite element formulations for fracture mechanics
- Marco Paggi (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)
- Timon Rabczuk (Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany)
- José Reinoso (University of Seville, Spain)
Polygonal and Polyhedral Methods
- Paola F. Antonietti (Politecnico di Milano)
- Lourenco Beirao da Veiga (Politecnico di Milano)
- Marco Verani (Politecnico di Milano)
Higher order eXtended discretization methods
- Björn Müller (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
- Florian Kummer (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Unfitted discretization methods for PDEs on embedded manifolds and coupled manifold-bulk problems
- Andre Massing (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Mat Larson (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Luca Formaggia (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Numerical techniques for interface problems
- Christos G. Panagiotopoulos (Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Heraklion, Crete, Greece)
- Luis A. Távara Mendoza (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Enriched methods for flow and mechanics in heterogeneous porous media
- Stefano Berrone (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
- Alessio Fumagalli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
- Oliver Sander (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
- Anna Scotti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Multiscale numerical coupling between coarse and fine models
- Alexei Lozinski (Université de Franche-Comté, France)
- Grégory Vial (Ecole Centrale Lyon, France)
Extended Finite Volumes
- Alfio Grillo (Politecnico di Torino)
- Arne Nägel (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
- Gillian Queisser (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
- Gabriel Wittum (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
