Authors are invited to submit two-page abstracts in one of the Mini Symposia listed below. All submissions must adhere to the given guidelines and follow the conference template, available for download below.
Authors of selected presentations in the conference will be invited to submit full-length manuscripts. These manuscripts will be considered for publication in special issues of recognized journals (Post conference).
Mini Symposia
Mechanics of Composite Materials
Organizer
Prof. P. M. Mohite
IIT Kanpur
Focus: Homogenization, damage, failure modeling, aerospace, automotive & defence applications, low velocity impact, thermal & hygroscopic effects
Advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Organizer
Prof. Niranjan Ghaisas
IIT Hyderabad
Focus: Turbulence modeling, flux schemes, novel method development, shock, transition, FVM, FDM, FEM
Mechanics of Highly Deformable Bodies & Materials
Organizer
Prof. Debashish Das
IISC (Bengaluru)
Focus: Biomechanics, stretchable electronics, energy harvesting, mechanics of strings & tubes
Extreme Mechanics
Focus: High velocity impact, high temperature, corrosion, neutron irradiation, hydrogen embrittlement
Advances in Computational Solid Mechanics
Organizers
Prof. A. Chandrasekhar
IIT Madras
Prof. Shantanu S. Mulay
IIT Madras
Focus: Multi-scale methods, FEM, P-FEM, Iso-geometry, DEM, SPH, mesh-less methods, non-local methods, optimization
Turbulent and Complex Flows
Organizer
Prof. Rajaram Lakkaraju
IIT Kharagpur
Focus: Aerodynamics, combustion, turbo-machinery, fundamental flows, transition, relaminarization, blood flow, rheology
Fatigue and Fracture
Organizer
Prof. Sabyasachi Chatterjee
IIT Delhi
Focus: LEFM, EPFM, HCF, VHCF, LCF, crack initation and growth, microstructure senstitive modeling
AI and HPC for Applied Mechanics
Organizer
Prof. Aditya Konduri
IISC (Bengaluru)
Focus: Machine learning, data driven modeling, PINN, Generative AI, Surrogate mode, GPU
Mechanics for Sustainability
Organizer
Prof. Siladitya Pal
IIT Roorkee
Focus: Battery, fuel cell, wind energy, solar energy, hydro energy, hydrogen storage, urban air mobility, weather model
Mechanics of Smart Materials and Structures
Organizer
Prof. Krishnendu Haldar
IIT Bombay
Focus: Metamaterials, phase change, piezo-electric, acoustic devices, magneto-mechanic devices
Design of Engineering Structures
Organizer
Prof. Sandeep Das
IIT Guwahati
Focus: Bridge, buildings, health-monitoring, aircraft structure, optimization
Mechanics in Bio-applications and Sports
Focus: Aerodynamics, drug delivery, bio implants, soft robotics
Geomechanics and Planetary Science
Organizer
Dr Ramesh Kannan Kandasami
IIT Madras
Focus: Landslide, earthquake, granular flows, porous media flow, tectonics
Fluid-structure Interaction
Focus: Aeroelasticity, buffets, flutter, instability
Plasticity and Creep
Organizer
Prof. Anirban Patra
IIT Bombay
Focus: Classical plasticity, crystal plasticity, discrete dislocation density, homogenization, damage initiation & propagation, instability
Mechanics of Soft and Biological Matter
Organizer
Prof. Ratna Kumar Annabattula
IIT Madras
Focus: Hydrogels, Liquid crystals, Biological materials, Constitutive Modelling of Polymers, Experimental Mechanics of Soft and Biological Matter
Numerical simulations for static and dynamic studies
Organizer
Prof. Srihari Dodla
IIT BHU
Focus: Microstructure materials, Aerospace design, Defense components, Numerical simulations, Microstructural analysis, Micromechanical modeling, Atomistic simulations
Surface Mechanics
Focus: Tribology, Contact mechanics, Thin films, Coatings, Bearing design
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.