Special Issue on Stabilized, Multiscale, and Multiphysics Methods in Fluid Mechanics

Abstract

This special issue of the Journal of Applied Mechanics is based on the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition ASME05 and ASME06. The mini-symposium on Challenges and Advances in Flow Simulation and Modeling: Fundamental and Enabling Technologies was held at ASME05 in Orlando, Florida, November 5–11, 2005, and the mini-symposium on Stabilized, Multiscale and Multiphysics Methods was held at ASME06 in Chicago, Illinois, November 5–10, 2006. The scope of the two symposia included all aspects of the stabilized and multiscale finite element methods as well as their applications to coupled fluid-structure interaction problems. The papers presented at the two symposia included (i) mathematical theory of the stabilized and multiscale finite element methods, (ii) new stabilized formulations, (iii) stabilized methods applied to fluid-structure interaction problems, (iv) large scale computations with stabilized methods, and (v) application of stabilized methods to biofluid dynamics.