Scientific Program

Program..

Overseas invited speakers

  • Adrian Muntean
    Eindhoven University of Technology,Netherlands    profile
    Talk 1: Averaging processes in materials with microstructures: The homogenization method (detail )
    Talk 2: Locally-periodic media with areas of low and high diffusivity. How can we average them? (detail )
  • Blaise Bourdin
    Louisiana State University, USA)    profile

  • Talk 1: The variational approach to fracture:
        Theory and numerical implementation (detail )
    Talk 2: The variational approach to fracture:
        Applications and extensions (detail )

invited Japanese speakers

  • Youichi Sumi
    Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National Univ.
  • Sohichi Hirose
    Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Talk: Application of convolution quadrature methods to time domain boundary element methods in wave analysis (detail )
  • Muneo Hori
    Earthquake Research Institute, Univ. of Tokyo
CoMFoS is the previous name of our activity group in JSIAM, that is, the abbreviation of Continuum Mechanics Focusing on Singularity.

Our themes

o Solid Mechanics
    Variational method
    Fracture Mechanics
    Shape sensitivity
    Optimization
o Boundary element method
    Fast Multipole Method
o Finite Element Method
o Mathematical research on continuum mechanics.