Multifield Problems

The Many Roles of Viscosity in Solid Mechanics.- Multiscale Approach to a Basic Problem of Materials Mechanics (Propagation of Phase-Transition Fronts).- Section 1: Two and Multiphase Flows.- Analysing Particle Sedimentation in Fluids by Measure-Valued Stochastic Processes.- Phenomenological Model of Sedimentation-Consolidation Processes.- The Structure of Bidisperse Suspensions at Low Reynolds Numbers.- Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Complex Multiphase Flows.- Interface Tracking in Multiphase Flows.- Section 2: Mechanics of Materials and Multiscaling.- Finite Element Computation of Macroscopic Quantities in Nonconvex Minimisation Problems and Applications in Materials Science.- Homogenization of an Initial-Boundary Value Problem Describing Evolving Microstructure.- Aspects of Homogenization Techniques and Multigrid Solving.- Estimates on the Mixture Function for Multiphase Problems in Elasticity.- A Two--Scale Micro--Macro--Approach to Anisotropic Finite Plasticity of Polycrystals.- Section 3: Solid--Fluid--Interaction.- Boundary Conditions at the Viscous Sliding Interface of Incompressible Porous Deformable Media.- Computational Experience from the Solution of Coupled Problems in Ship Dynamics.- On the Adaptive Computation of Shear Bands in Frictional Geomaterials.- Intrinsic Viscoelasticity of Porous Materials.- Numerical Simulation of Fluids Interacting with Moving Rigid Bodies.- Partitioned Analysis of Transient Nonlinear Fluid Structure Interaction Problems Including Free Surface Effects.- Section 4: Efficient Solvers and Adaptivity.- Domain Decomposition Methods in the Design of High Power Electronic Devices.- Matrix Compression for the Radiation Heat Transfer in Exhaust Pipes.- An Iterative Substructuring Method with Lagrange Multipliers for ElasticityProblems Using Approximate Neumann Subdomain Solvers.- A New a Posteriori Error Estimator in Adaptive Direct Boundary Element Methods. The Neumann Problem.- Efficient Elasto-Plastic Simulation.- Section 5: Contact and Fracture.- Sensitivity and Optimal Control in Contact Mechanics.- On the Treatment of Contact Problems in Elasto-Plasticity.- On Contact Problems for Linear and Nonlinear Elastic Plates: Existence of Solutions and Application of Augmented Lagrangian Method.- Longitudinal Wave Propagation in Conical Rods Subject to Impacts.- A Survey on Dynamic Contact Problems with Coulomb Friction.- Numerical Simulation of Noise Radiation from Rolling Tires.- Stress Singularities in Composites.