Computational Methods for Solids and Fluids

Preface.- Multiscale analysis as a central component of urbanphysics modeling, by Benoit Beckers.- A path-following method based on plastic dissipationcontrol, by Bostjan Brank et al..- Improved implicit immersed boundary method via operatorsplitting, by Cai Shang-Gui et al..- Modelling wave energy conversion of asemi-submerged heavy cylinder, by Cai Shang-Gui et al..- Multi-scale modelingof imperfect interfaces and applications, by Serge Dumont et al..- A stochasticmulti-scale approach for numerical modeling of complex materials - applicationto uniaxial cyclic response of concrete, by Jehel Pierre and George Deodatis.- Relatingstructure and model, by Ivica Kozar.- Fat Latin hypercube sampling andefficient sparse polynomial chaos expansion for uncertainty propagation onfinite precision models - application to 2D deep drawing process, by Jeremy Lebonet al..- Multiscale atomistic-to-continuum reduced models for micromechanicalsystems, by  Eduard Marenic and AdnanIbrahimbegovic.- Inverse Problems in a Bayesian Setting, by Hermann Matthies etal..- Heterogeneous materials models, coupled mechanics-probability problemsand energetically optimal model reduction, by Rainer Niekamp et al..- Modellingof fluid-structure interaction for internal fluid flow in cracks by using embeddedstrong discontinuities, by Mijo Nikolic et al..- Reliability calculus on crackpropagation problem with a Markov renewal process, by Chrysanthi Papamichail etal..- Multi-scale simulation of Newtonian and non-Newtonian multi-phase flows,by Juan Luis Prieto.- Numerical modeling of flow-driven piezoelectricenergyharvesting devices, by Ravi Srivathsan and Andreas Zilian.- Comparison ofnumerical approaches to Bayesian updating, by Rosic Bojana et al..- Two modelsfor hydraulic cylinders in flexible multibody simulations, by Antti Ylinen etal.